Introduction to XSLT

XSLT stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations and is an XML-based language that transforms an XML document into other formats, such as HTML. XSLT uses XPath expressions to locate parts of an XML document that need to be transformed. XSLT is commonly used as follows:

  • In web design, to transform XML documents into another language, such as HTML, for display in a web browser
  • In a data exchange environment, to transform XML documents where business applications share XML documents containing different markups

To transform an XML document, you need to create an XSLT style sheet.

The graphic shows how XSLT transforms an XML document to other document formats.
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