The xsl:output element allows stylesheet authors to specify how they wish the result tree to be output. If an XSLT processor outputs the result tree, it should do so as specified by the xsl:output element; however, it is not required to do so. The xsl:output element is only allowed as a top-level element. XSLT stylesheet 1 outputs as html and XSLT stylesheet 2 as xml. Compare how empty tags are outputed.

The xsl:copy element may have a use-attribute-sets attribute. In this way attributes for copied element can be specified. XSLT stylesheet 2 does not work as expected (setting use-attribute-sets with name function)., because expresions in attributes that refer to named XSLT objects are not evaluated.

mtxslt is an Ant task that makes it easy to call multiple XSLT engines during a single Ant build. This makes Ant a suitable tool for co-ordinating regression testing of XSLT scripts, so that they run portably.

Recent news includes announcements about the creation of a German-language XML Usenet newsgroup, an application for generating tree diagrams of content models from DTDs, and new XSLT tutorials.

Matt Sergeant has released Perl bindings for the XSLT processor in Daniel Veillard's GNOME libxml, reporting significant performance advantage over Sablotron.

Steve Ball recently announced the release of version 1.0 of the open-source XSLT Standard Library (xsltsl), a set of reusable XSLT templates that developers can use to perform tasks common to many applications.

Daniel Veillard, the maintainer of libxslt, the GNOME XSLT library, has announced its first stable release, version 1.0.0.

Attendees to the first XSLT-UK conference last weekend were surprised to discover that the XSL Working Group have decided to cancel plans to develop XSLT 1.1. The 1.1 functionality will be added to the 2.0 specification instead.

ActiveState have released two new IDEs for XSLT: a plug-in to Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET, and a Mozilla-based cross-platform IDE, Komodo.

Ovidiu Predescu has announced the release of xslt-process 2.0, a minor mode for GNU Emacs/XEmacs that adds XSLT processing and debugging capabilities to the popular kitchen-sink editor.

The open-source XML Authoring Environment (XAE) package for Emacs, developed by Paul Kinnucan, who also created the Java Development Environment for Emacs (JDE), aims to be an "easy-to-install, integrated development environment for creating, transforming, and displaying XML documents."

Extensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations (XSLT) is a computing language specialized for mapping XML documents into other XML documents.

XSLT is the abbreviation for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations. It is one of two parts of the XSL specification and is a language for transforming XML documents (actually the transformation part, T stands for transformation).

XSL: Extensible Stzlesheet Language introduction

XSL can convert XML to to plain text, to HTML, or to other values of XML. Some of the most important structures in XSL are:

You now know how to bind an XML namespace to a Java class and call its methods. For the XSLT processor to find the Java classes referenced in the stylesheet, simply package your Java classes into a "JAR" (Java archive) file and place them in the same directory as the DirXML engine Java libraries.

TclXSLT is a wrapper for the Gnome libxslt library that allows an application to perform XSL transformations (XSLT). The package also provides a binding to the XSLT extension mechanism so that XSLT extension may be implemented using Tcl scripts.

Style sheets describe how documents are presented on screens, in print, or perhaps how they are pronounced. W3C has actively promoted the use of style sheets on the Web since the Consortium was founded in 1994. The Style Activity has produced several W3C Recommendations (CSS1, CSS2, XPath, XSLT).

Simply scanning the XML Document Object Model (DOM) from top to bottom fo the hierarchy is unlikely to satisfy all of our needs.XSL allows us to use var iables, arrays, IF statements, looping structures, and more, to operate upon our data at each level of our templates.

Simply scanning the XML Document Object Model (DOM) from top to bottom fo the hierarchy is unlikely to satisfy all of our needs. XSL allows us to use var iables, arrays, IF statements, looping structures, and more, to operate upon our data at each level of our templates.