Summary
The real power of databases lies not in the fact that the data can be displayed, but that you can select or filter out only those records that are of interest. While it's possible to write JavaScript code to perform the selection, XSL templates provide a much more efficient approach.
In this hour, you learned how to output the data sorted by the variable of your choice. You also learned how to filter out the data based on either the value of the text or an attribute of the node. The final example demonstrated how to filter out the records where the attribute was assigned a value.
Efficient processing of databases on the Web is essential for all but the most trivial of e-commerce operations. XML is rapidly becoming the method of choice ...
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