XSLT Transformations on Web Servers

You can also perform XSLT transformations on a Web server so that an XML document is transformed before the Web server sends it to a browser. The most common transformation here is to transform an XML document to HTML, but XML-to-XML transformations on the server are becoming more and more common.

Unlike the other XSLT transformations we’ve seen so far in this chapter, if you want to perform XSLT transformations on a Web server, you’ll usually need to do some programming. There are three common ways to perform XSLT transformations on Web servers: using Java servlets, Java Server Pages (JSP), and Active Server Pages (ASP). Chapter 10 explores all three in greater detail. Some XSLT processors can be set up to ...

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