Learning XSLT

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Some notes on XSLT

XSLT (Doug Tidwell O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008)

http://books.google.com/books?id=W6SpffnfEPoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=xslt&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=j4fKTZ6GK4fGgAeZksTrBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CEUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=true

As mention in the book:

It provides a flexible, powerful language for transforming XML documents into something else, such as…, a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file, … So it may be a choice to use XSLT.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-XML-Output-Method

The Extensible Stylesheet Language Family (XSL)

XSL is a family of recommendations for defining XML document transformation and presentation.

XSL Transformations (XSLT):a language for transforming XML;

The XML Path Language (XPath):an expression language used by XSLT (and many other languages) to access or refer to parts of an XML document;

XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO):an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics.

XSLT (the extensible stylsheet Language for transformations) is a flexible, powerful, yet relatively simple language capable of processing XML