WSDL and XSLT

There are a myriad of uses for XSLT and WSDL. WSDL is XML based and ripe for being transformed for other uses. The purpose of WSDL is to describe a Web service so that it can be reused by other applications. Unfortunately, it is not the most readable language, and a WSDL document does little to aid a reader in helping a developer understand how to use a Web service. It would be much easier for a developer to use the Web service if the information were presented in a manner that is easy to read and understand.

Most of the useful information that is stored in a WSDL document is done so as an attribute of a particular element. Where the name of the data in an XML document would typically be represented by the name of the element itself, ...

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