XSLT Introduction

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HoboBen	Created : 05 August 2008 Edited : 05 August 2008 XSLT Introduction https://www.tizag.com/xmlTutorial/xslttutorial.php
Instead of using (X)HTML to markup a page, you can use pure XML to hold the data and then use an XSLT stylesheet which then decides how the markup is applied. e.g: <foo> <bar>cat</bar> <bar>dog</bar> <bar>mouse</bar> <bar>Flying Spaghetti Monster</bar> </foo> --v <xsl:template match="bar"> <p><b><span><span><xsl:value-of select="."/></span></span></b></p> </xsl:template> --v This is slightly less important when you're using a server-side scripting language such as PHP, as you can easily separate data from markup (and if you need to, tweak it to generate XML), but I think it's a really good approach anyway.

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Tuesday, 05 August 2008, 09:12
Jayenkai	Neat, but I'd be worried about compatibility when playing with things like that.
Tuesday, 05 August 2008, 09:49
9572AD	Looks like user-defined-HTML
Tuesday, 05 August 2008, 20:31
Nolan	Compatibility, Jay? XSLT is supported by every major browser, and can always be done on the server if needed. I love XSL -- I had never even heard of it before this summer and now use it for a variety of things. It's really great for taking almost any piece of XML, in any form, and transforming it into XHTML for rendering. Nice intro, Ben!

XSLT Introduction

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