XSL

This lecture covers the SML Stylesheet Language which allows us to transform XML documents without writing code.

• What is XSL
• The pull and push tags
• Using xpath to select a push point
• Using xpath to pull
• Control structures
• Transforming XML at the client end (through the browser)
• Transforming XML at the server end via JSP

• Read the rest of Chapter 7
• Look at Xslt.java. It implements the transformation given the xml/xsl pair and produces the output on standard output.
• Look at the S?.xsl stylesheets one by one and in order.
• Look at SS.jspx to implement the transformation in the server.