XSLT for Beginners

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XSLT is short for 'X'tensible Stylesheet Language Transformation. It is typically used in conjuction with an XML document to output HTML. I would strongly advise that you become familiar with XML, if not already, before reading on since it will make this article more clear.

XSLT is a programming language that uses XPath expressions to locate information within an XML document. All code is generally located in a .xsl file. From now on, I am going to refer to this ".xsl" file as a stylesheet. There are several components that are needed to develop a stylesheet

Declaration Statement: This is required to consider the document a stylesheet. The W3C XSLT Recommendation is to use one of the following as the root element.

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:transform version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

Root node match: this is the entry point to the stylesheet: where the processing begins

<xsl:template match="/">

Additional templates to specify the formatting of elements and path through xml

Example

XML:

Stylesheet (XSL):

Output:

Model: Pontiac G6
Year: 2007

Model: Ford Mustang
Year: 2005

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