 XSL – Extensible Style Sheet Language  XSLT – XSL Transformations › Used to transform XML documents to other formats,like HTML or other XML documents  It uses XPATH to navigate thro XML docs  Elements and attributes can be added/removed from the document

 XSLT uses XPATH to define parts of the source document that should match one or more predefined templates  When a match is found,XSLT transforms the matching part of the source document into result document

 Create an XSL Style Sheet  xsl:stylesheet is the root element  Link the Style sheet to XML document <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0” xmlns:xsl=" ” ”

 Template consists of rules to apply when a matching node is found  xsl:template is used to build template  The match attribute is used to associate a template with an XML element.  The value of the match attribute is an XPath expression  Match=“/” is defines the whole document

Arun 10BIT001 9 Students Name List Name Register No Save as Program.xml (top) Save as Name.xsl (right) Open the program.xml file in a browser

 Used to extract the value of a selected node

 Used for looping through XML document

 Used for conditional testing against the content of the XML document 

 Used for conditional testing against the content of the XML document 

  XSLT Reference by John W. Shipman