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Re: [xsl] Basics of XSLT

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I'll try to answer this.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:30 PM, himanshu padmanabhi
<himanshu.padmanabhi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 1.Why XSLT is actually used?and what it is exactly?

XSLT is a language, which can transform an XML input (with XSLT 2.0,
we can take a Text input as well) to various kinds of outputs (like
XML, HTML and Text).

> 2.I am using XPATH to pass arguments in my perl code.
> B  B  What is XPATH?and what is its significance?

XPath is a language to address parts of the XML document. In XPath, we
write expressions, which return a set of nodes (called sequences in
XPath 2.0). Though XPath can be used standalone, but it is usually
used in combination with a language like XSLT or XQuery. XSLT and
XQuery *need* XPath.

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> 3. <xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> Why this is
> required at start of every XSL file?

An XSLT program file is an XML file. By using this namespace in a XSLT
file, we can distinguish between XSLT language instructions and
non-XSLT elements/attributes.


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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi

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