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5 unusual facts about XSLT


Application-oriented networking

Application-oriented networking was popularized by Cisco Systems in response to increasing use of XML messaging (combined with related standards such as XSLT, XPath and XQuery) to link miscellaneous applications, data sources and other computing assets.

Java API for XML Processing

The XML Stylesheet Language for Transformations, or XSLT, allows for conversion of an XML document into other forms of data.

In addition to the parsing interfaces, the API provides an XSLT interface to provide data and structural transformations on an XML document.

Java XML

Saxon – alternative highly specification compliant XSLT/XPath/XQuery processor (supports both XSLT 1.0 and 2.0)

XalanXSLT/XPath implementation, included in JDK 1.4 and above as the default transformer (XSLT 1.0).


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History of Internet Explorer

Bi-directional text, ruby text and direct XML/XSLT support were included in this release, along with enhanced support for CSS Level 1 and 2.

Intelligent code completion

IntelliSense is now supported by the Visual Studio editors for C++, C#, J#, Visual Basic, XML, HTML and XSLT among others.

Pagination

This usually involves a markup language (such as XML, HTML, or SGML) that tags the content semantically and machine-readably, which allows downstream technologies (such as XSLT, XSL, or CSS) to output them into whatever presentation is desired.

PHPEdit

It is written in Delphi and runs on the Microsoft Windows operating system, and is designed mainly for the PHP language, but supports many other languages such as CSS, HTML, JavaScript, INI, PHPEditScript, PlainText, SQL, XML, and XSLT.

RegexBuddy

:The regular expression flavor defined in the W3C XPath standard; used in XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0.

TransforMiiX

TransforMiiX is an XSLT processor used in Gecko browsers, such as Firefox, to transform XML into HTML.

XSLT elements

Client-side XSLT can be implemented in a browser by adding a line like the following to the source XML file, right after the root XML tag.


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