XML to HTML Using of XSLT

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Overview of XSLT

XSLT stands for EXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations.

1. XSLT stands for XSL Transformations
2. XSLT transforms an XML document into another XML document
3. XSLT uses XPath to navigate in XML documents
4. XSLT is a W3C Recommendation

As we know XML is light weight and we can also store sensitive data in that. XSLT is very useful for wireless applications. Using XSLT we can create html pages by traversing a XML document

Below example illustrates how to transform a xml document to html.

XML file

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<Employees>
 <Employee>
  <name>xxx</name>
  <dept>abc</dept>
  <country>USA</country>
  <salary>2000</salary>
  </Employee>
 <Employee>
  <name>xyz</name>
  <dept>dddd</dept>
  <country>USA</country>
  <salary>2000</salary>
 </Employee>
 <Employee>
  <name>Abc</name>
  <dept>dsds</dept>
  <country>USA</country>
  <salary>3000</salary>
 </Employee>
 <Employee>
  <name>ccc</name>
  <dept>HR</dept>
  <country>USA</country>
  <salary>54545</salary>
 </Employee>
 <Employee>
  <name>aaa</name>
  <dept>Admin</dept>
  <country>USA</country>
  <salary>54454545</salary>
 </Employee>
  </Employees>

XSLT file

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
  <body>
    <h2>XYZ Company</h2>
    <table border="1">
      <tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
        <th>Name</th>
        <th>Dept</th>
<th>Country</th>
<th>Salary</th>

      </tr>
      <xsl:for-each select="Employees/Employee">
      <tr>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="name" /></td>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="dept" /></td>
 <td><xsl:value-of select="country" /></td>
 <td><xsl:value-of select="salary" /></td>

      </tr>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </table>
  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output

XYZ Company

Name	Dept	Country	Salary
xxx	abc	USA	2000
xyz	dddd	USA	2000
Abc	dsds	USA	3000
ccc	HR	USA	54545
aaa	Admin	USA	54454545

Conclusion

XSLT is used to transform an XML document into below format

   XML document
   HTML
   XHTML

Normally XSLT does this by transforming each XML element into an XHTML element.