What Is Xml Xslt?

What is XML XSLT?

First, it is worth stating that xml is a file format, a way of encoding information, especially document information. An xslt file is a script written using xml, and as such has some very clear semantics. The way these semantics are expressed comes by using namespaces. XSLT documents are referred to as style sheets or transformations. That is to say, you normally apply a transformation to an xml document. This will then use various templates and tree walking down the document to generate output, usually an html or xml document. There are a number of xslt engines out there that can read xslt to create the transformation rules, then can read in the xml and apply those rules. One of thest, freely available xslt engines is Saxon, written in Java (or Javascript) by Dr. Michael Kay. If you are working with xslt, you should probable use xslt 2.0 or above, as it has many features that make writing xslt easier. The examples here assume Saxon and xslt 2.0. (In progress)