Inside the Index and Search Engines: Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007

A Closer Look at the XSL

There is often a thin line between the role of the administrator and the role of the developer in the world of SharePoint. Developers have to know their way around the various administration pages, while administrators often will come in contact with more developer-oriented technologies within their daily operations. To be effective, an administrator must, for example, have an understanding of the Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML), configuration files such as web.config, and also, when it involves administration tasks related to search, a bit of knowledge about XSL. The topic of XSL is thus a good one to bridge the two parts within this chapter, allowing us to slowly but definitively move from the administrator ...