Extensible Stylesheet Transformations (XSLT)

XSLT is a very flexible technique that is used to transform an XML document into a different format, such as XSL-FO, HTML, WML, PDF, or any format you choose, including an XML document conforming to another DTD.

XSLT defines a stylesheet that can be applied to an XML document to transform the XML data into another format. The most common use of XSLT at the moment is to transform XML into HTML for display by a Web browser.

An XSLT stylesheet defines rules that will transform the XML data into the new format. The rules are driven by pattern matching XML elements and attributes in the original XML document. The pattern matching approach enables a single stylesheet to be used with XML documents conforming ...

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