"Your Web server has a tough job. It must connect to databases, retrieve data, process it, format it into HTML, and then send it to the client. Increase the life of your server by reducing the load on it using XML and XSL. The eXtensible Stylesheet Language (or XML) is a style-sheet format for XML documents that is the counterpart to the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) in HTML. By sending the XML and XSL to the client, and having the client create the HTML for you, your server can spend time doing other things, like processing credit card
Now that we are successfully using XML to mark up our information according to our own vocabularies, we are taking control and responsibility for our information, instead of abdicating such control to product vendors. These vendors would rather lock our information into their proprietary schemes to keep us beholden to their solutions and technology.But the flexibility inherent in the power given to each of us to develop our own vocabularies, and for industry associations, e-commerce consortia, and the W3C to develop their own vocabularies, presents the
XSLT allows you to create formatting structures which interpret and modify the existing XML elements. Learn about the syntax of XSLT elements, how the namespace attribute differs depending on the browser in use, and how to transform original XML elements.
XSL or eXtensible Stylesheet Language began life in much the same way as XML -- as a submission to the W3C. The W3C quickly released several working drafts before the final working draft was released in 2000. It shared some common design goals with XML, namely:
A quick design
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