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XSL/XSLT

The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) and the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) are standardized XML-based vocabularies (markup languages) for changing the content and data stored in an XML document into a different output form. Using XSL, you can take content saved in an XML format and transform it into any output media (HTML, WML, PDF, PostScript, plain text) by applying a special XML stylesheet document written using XSL or XSLT. The XSLT transformation process is illustrated in Figure 1-1.

Figure 1-1: Transforming XML into a variety of output formats using XSLT.