XSLT Applications
In addition to XSLT's primary purpose in the context of application integration, XSLT has a number of other applications.
Schema Conversions
The main application of XSLT, and the reason for its inclusion here, is for schema conversions as XML documents move between applications, accounting for the differences in the way applications manage data structures.
XSLT is the preferred method of converting data structured within XML. You can leverage XSLT for the following:
Extracting data.
Validating data.
Persisting data.
Converting attributes to elements.
Converting elements to attributes.
Changing the metadata and content of an incoming XML document to create a new outgoing XML document.
Converting XML to Something Else, and Vice Versa ...
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