XSLT and XPath - W3Schools

• XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) is a styling language for XML.
• XSLT stands for XSL Transformations.
• XSLT is a language for transforming XML documents.
• XPath is a language for navigating in XML documents.
• XQuery is a language for querying XML documents.

XSL

> Extensible Stylesheet Language

> CSS is the style sheet for HTML

> XLS is the stylesheet for XML (In fact it is more than a stylesheet)

XSL consists of four parts:

• XSLT - a language for transforming XML documents
• XPath - a language for navigating in XML documents
• XSL-FO - a language for formatting XML documents (discontinued in 2013)
• XQuery - a language for querying XML documents

XSLT

• XSLT stands for XSL Transformations
• XSLT transforms an XML document into another XML document
• XSLT uses XPath to navigate in XML documents

XSLT is used to transform an XML document into another XML document, or another type of document that is recognized by a browser, like HTML and XHTML. Normally XSLT does this by transforming each XML element into an (X)HTML element.

A common way to describe the transformation process is to say that XSLT transforms an XML source-tree into an XML result-tree.

With XSLT you can add/remove elements and attributes to or from the output file. You can also rearrange and sort elements, perform tests and make decisions about which elements to hide and display, and a lot more.