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XSLT

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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

XPath (XML Path Language):

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

XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language):

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

XSL-FO (XML Formatting Objects):

XML vocabulary for the paper document oriented typesetting of XML documents

XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations):

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

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XSLT

The development of 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. (2018). XSLT. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_136

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