XSLT

• The Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations: W3C Recommendation, wikipedia:XSLT.
• An XML file with rules for transforming an XML into something else.
• Need an XSLTProcessor. JavaScript has the XSLTProcessor object while IE has document.transformNode() method.
• You can have Firefox (and others) style your .xml file by just starting the .xml with

<?xml version="1.0"?><!-- this is an xml document -->
<!-- declare the xsl namespace to distinguish xsl tags from html tags -->
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="html"/>

  <!-- When we see the root element, output the HTML framework of a table -->
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <table>
      <tr><th>Name</th><th>E-mail Address</th></tr>
      <xsl:apply-templates/>  <!-- and recurse for other templates -->
    </table>
  </xsl:template>

  <!-- When we see a <contact> element... -->
  <xsl:template match="contact">
    <tr> <!-- Begin a new row of the table -->
      <!-- Use the name attribute of the contact as the first column -->
      <td><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></td>
      <xsl:apply-templates/>  <!-- and recurse for other templates -->
    </tr>
  </xsl:template>

  <!-- When we see an <email> element, output its content in another cell --> 
  <xsl:template match="email">
    <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>