XML Demystified

CHAPTER
6
XSLT
You’ve probably heard of the difficulties federal law enforcement agencies have
sharing electronic data. Data is stored in different formats, which can prevent one
agency’s computers from reading another agency’s data.
This is a common problem anyone who works with data faces. However, you can
resolve much of this problem by using XML. You feel the true power of XML when
you use it to efficiently convert text in an XML document into a different format
that any application can access. The conversion process is called transformation,
and if the XML document is associated with a stylesheet, a processor handles the
conversion.
A stylesheet is a road map that shows an application how to convert the XML
document into another format. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to create a stylesheet
and how to use an XSLT processor to transform an XML document into an entirely
different format.
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