Evolution of XML What is XML? The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. Its primary purpose is to facilitate…

Overview of XSL Transformations In an XSL transformation, an XSLT processor reads both an XML document and an XSLT style sheet. Based on the instructions the processor finds…

Options for displaying XML  XSL output methods <xsl:output cdata-section-elements="namelist" doctype-public="string" doctype-system="string" encoding="string" indent="yes" | "no" media-type="mimetype" method="html" | "name" | "text"…

We can even use CSS to format XML, but as we know CSS is designed to format HTML not XML (meta languages) and XML is not like HTML. XML is related with data whereas HTML is…

A stylesheet specifies the presentation of XML information using two basic categories of techniques: • An optional transformation of the input document…

Transformation capabilities include: • generation of constant text • suppression of content • moving text (e.g., exchanging the order of…

The components of the XSL The full XSL language logically consists of three component languages which are described in three W3C (World Wide Web…

XSL is a W3C Recommendation XSL or CSS is essential for XML presentation and XSL far more powerful and complicated than CSS. XSL permits : • element reordering • selection of source…

The Structure of a Stylesheet • XSLT Stylesheets are XML documents; namespaces (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names) are used to identify semantically significant elements. • Most stylesheets are stand-alone…

Match Patterns (Locating Elements) One critical capability of a stylesheet language is to locate source elements to be styled. CSS, for…

section/*/note Matches <note> elements that have <section> grandparents. stockquote[@symbol] Matches <stockquote> elements that have a “symbol” attribute stockquote[@symbol=”XXXX”] Matches <stockquote>…

Node Tests & Axis Specifiers Node tests are most frequently element names, but other node tests are possible: name Matches…

Applying Style One model for applying style is to allow the process to run recursively, driven primarily by the document.…

Conflict Resolution The problem of multiple patterns that match is handled by conflict resolution: • Matching templates from imported modules…

Applying Style Procedurally The other model for applying style is to select each action procedurally. A series of templates is…