Overview
XSL Transformations (XSLT), a W3C recommendation, is a language for transforming or changing XML documents into other XML documents that have very different data structures. This process is called tree transformation, in which the source XML data structure, called the source tree, is converted to the required output XML structure, called the output tree, by following the XSLT rules.
Graphically, the tree transformation appears as shown in Figure 6.1.
Figure 6.1. Tree transformation.
During the tree transformation process, the contents of the source tree can be reordered and filtered, and user-defined content and structure can be added ...
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