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Web Developer Resource Index: XSLT

XSLT is designed for transforming XML documents into other formats, such as XHTML. A transformation involves applying a XSLT stylesheet using XPath to match elements and attributes in an XML document source tree. An XSLT stylesheet uses an output template that is dynamically populated with the matching elements.

To view the rendered version of such a transformation normally requires a modern user agent such as the Gecko-based Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape family of browsers, or, under certain circumstances, Internet Explorer 6.0+ or Opera 8.0+. Otherwise you are likely to get only the XML soure code.

Note that output from XSLT is not limited to targeting browsers. It could also be something as simple as plaintext, or perhaps a document formatting and typesetting system such as T_EX or DocBook, or some other file format such as PDF or RTF.

Updated: Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 @ 1:53 AM EDT

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• 1.XSL Transformations

  This specification defines the syntax and semantics of XSLT, which is a language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents. [158]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
  Author:
  James Clark
  [3]
  Reviewed:Saturday, April 9th, 2005 @ 1:12 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  XSL Transformations w3cxmlxslt
   

• 2.XSLT Cookbook

  Why reinvent the wheel? A collaborative collection of techniques, code examples and comments from the XSLT development community. Anyone can contribute, or submit comments and improvements. Not to be confused with the O'Reilly books of the same name. [1481]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/XSLT
  Author:
  Open Source Community
  [14]
  Reviewed:Thursday, August 11th, 2005 @ 1:49 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  XSLT Cookbook codehowtoresourcesxslt
   

• 3.There are Monsters in My Closet

  Or, "How Not to Use XSLT." This slideshow format tutorial walks you through best practices for writing efficient transformation stylesheets. It covers push verses pull techniques, and lots of optimizations. I know this much, avoid using // to search! [1473]

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  URI:http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/academics/courses/is290-8/s04/lectures/5...
  Author:
  R. Alexander Milowski
  [1]
  Reviewed:Monday, August 8th, 2005 @ 12:56 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  There are Monsters in My Closet performancetutorialxmlxslt
   

• 4.Quick Reference

  Handy, printable PDF quick reference cards for XSLT and XPATH, and XML syntax. The two page XSLT/XPATH card includes a full list of functions, objects and expressions, and template rules. Each list matches the section number of the specification at W3C. [1437]

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  URI:http://mulberrytech.com/quickref/
  Author:
  Mulberry Technologies
  [1]
  Reviewed:Thursday, July 28th, 2005 @ 12:37 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Quick Reference pdfreferencespecw3cxmlxpathxslt
   

• 5.Push, Pull, Next!

  There are two basic methods of filtering, or transforming XML data using XSLT. The first uses the xsl:apply-templates instruction to "push" the matching nodes through to the template, and the second one relies on xsl:value-of to "pull" the values out. [1387]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://xml.com/pub/a/2005/07/06/tr.html
  Author:
  Bob DuCharme
  [1]
  Reviewed:Saturday, July 9th, 2005 @ 4:43 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Push, Pull, Next! xmlxslt
   

• 6.An Introduction to Client-Side XSLT

  Of all places to find an article on XSLT! If you're just getting your feet wet with transformations, this is a good place to start. With modern browsers, experimenting and learning XSLT no longer requires expensive or complicated server-side software. [1380]

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  URI:http://digital-web.com/articles/client_side_xslt/
  Author:
  Ken Westin
  [1]
  Reviewed:Thursday, July 7th, 2005 @ 11:29 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  An Introduction to Client-Side XSLT clientcssjavascriptxmlxpathxslt
   

• 7.Xalan-C++

  Xalan is an XSLT processor written in C++, from the fine folks at the Apache XML project of course. It is "a robust implementation of the W3C Recommendations for XSLT and XPath." If you're using the Amazon AWS+XSLT transformations, you're using Xalan. [1284]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://xml.apache.org/xalan-c/
  Author:
  Project Management Committee
  [2]
  Reviewed:Saturday, June 11th, 2005 @ 12:23 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Xalan-C++ amazonapachew3cxmlxpathxslt
   

• 8.XML to XHTML Transformations with XSLT

  Most articles on XSLT transformations focus on generating HTML output. If you're using XHTML like I am, then this introductory article is worth a quick read. Covered are XSL output methods, XHTML DTDs and an example stylesheet to transform XML data. [1283]

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  URI:http://peachpit.com/articles/article.asp?p=21844
  Author:
  Steve Holzner
  [1]
  Reviewed:Saturday, June 11th, 2005 @ 11:34 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  XML to XHTML Transformations with XSLT doctypexhtmlxmlxslxslt
   

• 9.Recipe of the Day

  From the XSLT Cookbook, a new "recipe" de jour, with such ingredients as strings, numbers and math, dates and times, selection and traversal, XML to (many), extending and embedding, and testing and debugging. With additional advanced topics. [1267]

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  URI:http://xml.com/cookbooks/xsltckbk/solution.csp?day=1
  Author:
  Sal Mangano
  [1]
  Reviewed:Sunday, June 5th, 2005 @ 7:01 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Recipe of the Day programmingstylesheetxmlxslt
   

• 10.Jeni's XSLT Pages

  Dr. Jennison is a cracker when it comes to XSLT. A whole series of articles and tutorials on making the most of XML transformations. Way too much stuff to list here. She's also written some excellent books on XSLT and XPath, from beginner to advanced. [1235]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://jenitennison.com/xslt/
  Author:
  Jeni Tennison
  [1]
  Reviewed:Tuesday, May 24th, 2005 @ 4:12 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Jeni's XSLT Pages xmlxpathxslt
   

• 11.Sablotron

  Sablotron is a fast, portable XSLT toolkit/API written in C++. It supports the DOM L2 and XPath 1.0 specifications from the W3C. Libraries for PHP, Perl and other languages as well as an Apache server module are also available. Requires expat. [1218]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.gingerall.com/charlie/ga/xml/p_sab.xml?s=org
  Author:
  Ginger Alliance
  [1]
  Reviewed:Saturday, May 21st, 2005 @ 9:13 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Sablotron apacheapiperlphpxpathxslt
   

• 12.XSLT Stylesheets

  Over 100 examples of XML and XSLT stylesheets, arranged into categories. Site also includes a large collection of XML language articles, tutorials, reference sections and other resources. [1122]

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  URI:http://topxml.com/xsltstylesheets/
  Author:
  David Silverlight
  [2]
  Reviewed:Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 @ 1:19 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  XSLT Stylesheets referencetutorialxmlxslt
   

• 13.XSLT and Scripting Languages

  An overview, and then a compare/contrast of XSLT with existing scripting languages. Many people consider XSLT as simply a tool used to render XML data (such as RSS) into a browser-viewable format, but XSLT is a lot more powerful than just that. [1117]

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  URI:http://idealliance.org/papers/xml2001/papers/html/05-03-06.html
  Author:
  Paul Prescod
  [1]
  Reviewed:Monday, May 9th, 2005 @ 7:34 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  XSLT and Scripting Languages xmlxslt
   

• 14.An XSLT C Library

  Libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the Gnome project. XSLT itself is a an XML language to define transformation for XML. Users can either embed the library in their application or use the xsltproc command line processing tool. [1030]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
  Author:
  Daniel Veillard
  [1]
  Reviewed:Wednesday, April 20th, 2005 @ 11:48 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  An XSLT C Library xslt
   

• 15.What is XSLT?

  XSLT enables and empowers interoperability. This XML.com introduction strives to overview essential aspects of understanding the context in which these languages help us meet our transformation requirements. [164]

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  URI:http://xml.com/pub/a/2000/08/holman/
  Author:
  G. Ken Holman
  [1]
  Reviewed:Saturday, April 9th, 2005 @ 2:57 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  What is XSLT? xslt
   

• 16.XSLT Reference

  An index of XSLT elements, attributes, functions, and axes in that also link to the relevant part of the specification. [163]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://zvon.org/xxl/XSLTreference/Output/
  Author:
  Miloslav Nic
  [4]
  Reviewed:Saturday, April 9th, 2005 @ 2:49 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  XSLT Reference xslt
   

• 17.W3Schools: XSLT Tutorial

  Learn how to use XSLT to transform XML documents into other XML formats, like XHTML. [161]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/
  Author:
  Jan Egil Refsnes
  [5]
  Reviewed:Saturday, April 9th, 2005 @ 2:26 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  W3Schools: XSLT Tutorial xslt
   

• 18.XSLT Tutorial

  Using XSLT to modify XML source files to produce different output. [159]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://zvon.org/xxl/XSLTutorial/Books/Book1/index.html
  Author:
  Miloslav Nic
  [4]
  Reviewed:Saturday, April 9th, 2005 @ 1:58 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  XSLT Tutorial xslt
   

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