XSLT

In computer science, XSLT is the abbreviation for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations. It is one of two parts of the XSL specification and is a language for transforming XML documents (actually the transformation part, T stands for transformation). The other half of the XSL specification being XSLF (where F stands for Formatting Objects. Alternatively referred to as XSL-FO, or XSLFO). XSLT is a XML transformation language, which transforms documents in XML format. To transform in this context means to take all data or part of it (Query of a selection with XPath) and create another XML document or a document in a format which can directly be used for displaying or printing (e.g. an HTML, RTF or TeX document). In particular the transformations involve:\n* adding constant text like HTML document type and header information\n* moving text\n* sorting text An XML document is a tree on which the transformations are applied. The language is declarative, i.e. a program consist of a collection of several rules which transformations should be performed. The rules are applied recursively. The XSLT processor checks which rules can be applied and executes the associated transformations based on a sequence of priorities. You can use XSLT in combination with CSS to produce HTML documents. An XSLT program is an XML document as the following template shows\n

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STX is intended as a high-speed, low memory consumption alternative to XSLT.

Example

\nThis example is taken from [1]. Example: A function calculating factorial as an example of XSLT recursion.\n

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External links

• Implementations\n** Xalan-Java\n** Xalan-C++\n** libxslt the XSLT C library for Gnome\n** Sablotron\n** SAXON by Michael Kay\n** XT by James Clark\n** Microsoft XSLT engine\n** Mozilla has native XSLT support\n** X-Smiles has native XSLT support
• Documentation\n** XSLT 1.0 W3C Recommendation\n** XSLT 2.0 W3C Working Draft\n** Tutorial from develperWorks (1 hour)\n** XSLT Tutorial\n** What kind of language is XSLT?

Category:W3C standards\nCategory:XML standards