U-X

Glossary
XSLT For Dummies
by Richard Wagner
Hungry Minds 2002

  

URI:

The way in which resources on the Web are named. The most common URIs are Web addresses ( http://www.dummies.com ), which are also known as URLs.

variable:

An XSLT element that can represent a value and is defined with the xsl:variable element. For example, the variable <xsl:variable name =" myname ">Rich</xsl:variable> is named myname and has the string value of Rich .

W3C:

The primary international body that governs Internet standards.

well- formed :

A well-formed document is one that is syntactically correct; in other words, every begin tag has a matching end tag. For example:

 <book id="10101">War and Peace</book> 

XML:

A markup language that enables you to define elements that describe the data they contain.

XPath:

The language used by XSLT to describe how to locate nodes in a source XML document. Think of XPath as the spy or commando who is charged with going into an XML document and picking out the requested information for XSLT.

XSL:

The markup language charged with styling, laying out, or transforming XML documents into a form that makes sense to its intended audience. XSL is composed of two independent parts : XSLT for transforming XML from one structure to another; and XSL Formatting Objects and Formatting Properties for formatting XML documents.

XSLT:

A language used to transform XML documents into other XML documents or formats.

XSLT processor:

Software that applies an XSLT stylesheet to a source XML document to produce a result document.

    

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