XSL Transformations (XSLT)
XSL Transformations (XSLT) is a standard way to describe how to transform (change) the structure
of an XML
(Extensible Markup Language) document into an XML document with a different structure. XSLT is a
Recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
XSLT can be thought of as an extension of the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL).
XSL is a language for formatting an XML document (for example, showing how the data described in
the XML document should be presented in a Web page). XSLT shows how the XML document should be
reorganized into another data structure (which could then be presented by following an XSL style sheet).
XSLT is used to describe how to transform the source tree or data structure of an XML
document into the result tree for a new XML document, which can be completely different in
structure. The coding for the XSLT is also referred to as a style sheet and can be combined with an
XSL style sheet or be used independently.
Contributor(s): Barry Frye
This was last updated in February 2000
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