What is XSL?
- XSL is a language for expressing style sheets. An XSL style sheet is a file that describes the way to display an XML document.
- Using XSL stylesheets, we can separate the XML document content and its styling.
An XSL style sheet begins with the XML declaration:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet> defines that the document is an XSLT style sheet document.
The <xsl:template> element defines a template.
Define CSS and XSL.
- XSL is a language for expressing style sheets. An XSL style sheet is a file that describes the way to display an XML document.
- Cascading Style Sheets is an answer to the limitations of HTML, where the structure of documents was defined and not the display. CSS formats documents for display in browsers that support it.
How do you display XML with XSLT?
First you need to declare the XSL style sheet:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.abc.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
Then, you create an XSL Style Sheet with a transformation template.
Add the XSL style sheet reference to your XML document to link them.
