An XSLT document is essentially a stylesheet written in well-formed XML to provide specific styling information for one or more XML source documents. For example, an XSLT stylesheet might be used to tell a browser to format the data in an XML document as a table.
XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) is a styling language for XML.
XSLT stands for XSL Transformations.
This tutorial will teach you how to use XSLT to transform XML documents into other formats (like transforming XML into HTML).
XSL – More Than a Style Sheet Language
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