What Is XSLT?

The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) language for manipulating XML data. XSLT is the component of XSL that allows you to write a stylesheet that you can apply to XML documents. The result of applying a stylesheet is that the XSLT processor creates a new XML, HTML, or text document based on the source document. The XSLT processor follows the instructions in the stylesheet. The instructions can copy, omit, and reorganize data in the source document, as well as add new data.

XSL is an XML-based language. It was developed by the W3C XSL working group within the W3C Stylesheets Activity. The W3C activity group has organized its specification of XSL into three parts:

What XSLT Versions Does Stylus Studio Support?

Stylus Studio 2009 supports XSLT 1.0 and XSLT 2.0. The Stylus Studio built-in XSLT processor is version aware, as is the XSLT Mapper. XSLT 2.0 was designed to work with XPath 2.0.

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