Kiran Naik

XSL is nothing but XML Style Sheets. XSL stands for EXtensible Stylesheet Language.It describes how the XML document should be displayed for your requirement. XSL is a broad term which has following parts:

XSLT – a language for transforming XML documents
XPath – a language for navigating in XML documents
XSL-FO – a language for formatting XML documents

We will not worry much about XPath and XSL-FO. Our focus will be on XSL and XSLT(language for transforming XML documents) XSLT language is much like a scripting, basic understanding of HTML/XHTML, XML is necessary.

• XSLT is XSL Transformations
• XSLT is the crucial part of XSL
• XSLT transforms an XML document into another XML document

XSLT is XSL Transformations

XSLT is used to transform an XML document into another XML document. It can also used to transform XML into either HTML or any kind of file. XSLT does this by transforming each XML element into an (X)HTML element.With XSLT you can add/remove XML elements to or from the output file. With XSLT you can build the business logic and display the data from XML to the users accordingly. For instance, you might want to hide actual cost of the book from the user. This can be done through XSLT.