This article presents a simple, hands-on exercise that demonstrates the principles of the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). It takes about an hour to complete the concept exercises and about 15 minutes at a computer to try out the results with a real XSLT processor.

The xsl:include and xsl:import instructions give you ways to incorporate XSLT stylesheets programmatically. There are two situations where this is useful.

The use of XML for loosely-coupled application integration has become a high profile topic, crucial as it is for the future conduct of electronic business transactions. This area has seen a proliferation of activity from both consortia and individual vendors. This article gives an overview and es

An XSL transformation results in the creation of a new XML tree. This clear separation between the source document and the result trees fulfills the goal of XML to separate content from presentation by allowing both the grammar and the structure of the XML source to be independent of the presentatio

February 6-9, 2001 www.marcusevansusa.com Increasingly, businesses are seeking flexible, scalable solutions for real time eCommerce. XML not only has great potential to easily exchange information with an organization’s suppliers and partners globally; it is gaining widespread industry acceptan

Is XML a potential competitor to CORBA? Does it represent CORBA's nemesis? Or is it, on the contrary, too lightweight for use in distributed systems? Much heated debate has centered recently on the question of the possible combination of CORBA and XML… Since opinions on the topic diverge wi

The Semantic Web lies at the heart of Tim Berners-Lee's vision for the future of the World Wide Web. Along with others at the W3C Berners-Lee is working on the infrastructure for this next stage of the Web's life. But the question "What is the Semantic Web?" is being asked with incre

As people begin delving into using XSLT, more and more complicated transformations are needed. In our quest to convert data into another format, several inherent limitations in XSLT are being realized and apparent barriers reached. Things that are simple in procedural programming languages are diffi

Michael Corning introduces XSL with a sample application that uses data and presentation components to create a dynamic, Web-based reporting application. Along the way, you'll see how XSL works and how it can be integrated with XML Document Object Model processing.

XMSG is a specification for using XML to send messages that contain a set of XML documents, embedded non-XML data, and references to non-XML documents in a fashion that supports scalable transactions and operates on a participant model.