12.5. Future Directions
In this section we look at the future directions of relevant technologies.
12.5.1. XSLT
One of the technologies related to XML that has become a powerful comple mentary tool to use along with XML is the eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL). XSL is a language for transforming XML documents and consists of three parts: the XSL language specification itself, XSL Transformations (XSLT), and XML Path (XPath). The combination of XSLT and XPath provides a powerful tree-oriented language for transforming XML documents into other forms including HTML, XML, and PDF. Future versions of the OAI need to provide the client the ability to dynamically select a subset of the fields returned through a query, instead of the full set, which ...
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