What is XSLTBefore XSLT, first we should learn about XSL. XSL stands for EXtensible Stylesheet Language. It is a styling language for XML just like CSS is a styling language for HTML. XSLT stands for XSL Transformation. It is used to transform XML documents into other formats (like transforming XML into HTML). What is XSLIn HTML documents, tags are predefined but in XML documents, tags are not predefined. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) developed XSL to understand and style an XML document, which can act as XML based Stylesheet Language. An XSL document specifies how a browser should render an XML document. Main parts of XSL Document
How XSLT WorksThe XSLT stylesheet is written in XML format. It is used to define the transformation rules to be applied on the target XML document. The XSLT processor takes the XSLT stylesheet and applies the transformation rules on the target XML document and then it generates a formatted document in the form of XML, HTML, or text format. At the end it is used by XSLT formatter to generate the actual output and displayed on the end-user. Image representation: ![]() Advantage of XSLTA list of advantages of using XSLT:
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