XSLT

Also known as XSL Transformations, Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations

XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language originally designed for transforming XML documents into other XML documents, or other formats such as HTML for web pages, plain text, or XSL Formatting Objects. These formats can be subsequently converted to formats such as PDF, PostScript, and PNG. Support for JSON and plain-text transformation was added in later updates to the XSLT 1.0 specification.

Key facts

File format.mime: application/xslt+xml
Programming language.name: XSLT
Programming language.file ext: .xslt
Programming language.paradigm: Declarative
Programming language.developer: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Programming language.latest release version: 3.0
Programming language.implementations: libxslt, Saxon, Xalan
Programming language.influenced by: DSSSL
File format.name: XSLT
File format.extension: .xslt
File format.uniform type: org.w3.xsl

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Contents

History
Design and processing model
XPath
XQuery compared
Media types
Examples
Example 1 (transforming XML to XML)
Example 2 (transforming XML to XHTML)
Processor implementations
Performance
See also
References
Further reading
External links

XSLT 3.0 implementations support Java, .NET, C/C++, Python, PHP and NodeJS. An XSLT 3.0 JavaScript library can also be hosted within the web browser. Modern web browsers also include native support for XSLT 1.0.