XSL-Based Transformation
There are two types of transformations in the context of data integration: structural transformation, meaning changing the order or the data and perhaps even its presentation; and content transformation, meaning adding, changing, or dropping data elements. Many times, both structural and content transformation are required while exchanging data between two applications. But sometimes, just a structural change or a content change is needed.
XML markup can be very descriptive of the contents, but it needs to be transformed into a presentation-friendly markup for display. XML has two choices for achieving this without changing the code handling XML documents:
Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)
XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)
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