XSLT: XML Transformers!
Once you're in XML land, 80 percent of what your applications will do involves converting one type of XML to another. For instance, your domain-specific language (our movie review XML format) will have to be converted into many different XHTML (XML-compliant HTML) variants for different versions of Web sites (which you might need if you were supporting many types of browsers on many types of devices), including Wireless Markup Language (WML, another XML derivative) for delivery to WAP phones. In addition, the domain-specific language may be packaged for syndication with the Information Content Exchange (ICE) language (again, XML-derived) or converted into another data exchange language and so forth and so on. One immensely ...
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