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XSLT

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Synonyms

eXtensible Stylesheet Language transformations;XSL transformations

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W3C (World Wide Web Consortium):

Main international standardization organization for the World Wide Web (W3)

XML (eXtensible Markup Language):

Textual markup language for encoding structured documents and data

XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language):

Family of W3C recommendations including XSLT, XPath and XSL-FO for specifying XML document transformations and typesettings

XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations):

Declarative rule-based language for the structural transformation of XML documents

XPath (XML Path Language):

Structured query language for the path-, type-, and value-based selection of XML document nodes

XSL-FO (XML Formatting Objects):

XML vocabulary for the paper document oriented typesetting of XML documents

Definition

XSLT

The developmentof XSL by the W3C was mainly motivated by the need of an open typesetting standard for displaying and printing XML documents. The XSL W3C...

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Amann, B. (2014). XSLT. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_136

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