XSL
XSL
stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language. An XSL stylesheet is a program that
transforms an XML document into another XML document. XSL is a high-level,
functional language.
For
example:
Transforming
XML to XHTML (HTML that conforms to XML syntax)
Transforming
an XML document to WML (a format of XML that cellular phones can display)
XSL consists of three ip arts:
- XSLT - a language for transforming XML documents
- XPath - a language for navigating in XML documents
- XSL-FO - a language for formatting XML documents
Example 1 - XSL
<xs1:stylesheet
xmlns:xs1="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xs1">
<xsl:template
match="/">
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Authors</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>Composers
from India </H1>
<TABLE
BORDER=”1”><TR><TH>Nmae</TH></TR>
<xsl:for-each
select="/authors/author[nationality='India']">
<TR><TD><xs1:value-of select="name" /></TD></TR>
</xsl: for each>
select="/authors/author[nationality='India']">
<TR><TD><xs1:value-of select="name" /></TD></TR>
</xsl: for each>
</TABLE>
<
/BODY>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
<authors>
<author
period="Classical">
<name>Ilaiyaraaja</name>
<nationality>India</nationality>
</author>
<authors>
<author
period="Romance">
<name>Rachmanioff</name>
<nationality>Russian</nationality>
</author>
<authors>
<author period="Classical">
<name>Mozart</name>
<nationality>Austrian</nationality>
</author>
<authors>
<author
period="Classical">
<name>Beethoven</name>
<nationality>German</nationality>
</author>
<authors>
<author
period="Baroque"›
<name>Bach</name>
<nationality>German</nationality>
</author>
<authors>
<author
period="Baroche">
<name>vavaldi</name>
<nationality>Italian</nationality>
</author>
<author period="Romance">
<name>MM
Keeravani</name>
<nationality>India</nationality>
</author>
<authors>
<author period="Romance">
<name>Chopin</name>
<nationality>Poland</nationality>
</author>
<authors>
<author
period="Romance">
<name>mahler</name>
<nationality>Austrian</nationality>
</author>
OUTPUT:
Composers
From India
