What is XSLT?
- Transforming XML documents.
- Became a Recommendation in Nov 1999. Quite popular. For
instance, uses within W3C:
- Many W3C specs: XMLSpec DTD with stylesheets to generate various formats
- MathML, XSL, SVG: public page
- RDF: RDF/XML parser, RDF picture description using SVG
- Issues management: XML Protocols, WS Architecture, XSLT, XPath
- Publications: on-line pubrules validator
- RSS Feeds: W3C home page, MathML, XSL, SVG, Internal WDs
- DOM: test suite framework
- WAI: stylesheets used to add ToC to specs
- TAG: meeting minutes formatting
- QA: generating the Matrix
- Used off-line [Example: slides] or in Web browsers [Example: XSL Page at W3C]
- Can generate HTML, SVG, Formatting Objects, etc. from XML
