Chapter 1. Anatomy of an XSLT Stylesheet
Overview of XML
Introduction to XSLT and XPath
Nodes
Document Order
Converting XML to HTML
XSLT, the extensible stylesheet language for transformations, is a language that provides the mechanism to transform and manipulate XML data. It is impossible to discuss XSLT without a reference to XML (extensible markup language). XML is a related W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standard, and is the basis for standard information interchange. XML provides structure to information, and XSLT, along with another related standard, XPath (XML path language), provides the means to extract, restructure, and manipulate that information.
XSLT has the same cross-platform functionality found in XML because it is written according ...
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