Xstl Extensible Stylesheet Transformation

The full name of xstl is the Extensible style sheet conversion language Extensible Stylesheet Transformation Language, which is a language used to convert the XML document structure. To make the data easy to read and understand, you often need to display or print the information, such as converting the data into an HTML file, a PDF file, or even a piece of sound. Similarly, to make the data suitable for different applicationsProgramYou must convert one data format to another. For example, the required format may be a text file, an SQL statement, an HTTP message, and ordered data calls. Xstl is a language used to implement this conversion function. The main function of xstl is to convert XML into HTML.

CSS is only suitable for outputting fixed final documents. The advantage of CSS is that it is concise and consumes less system resources. Although xstl is powerful, it consumes a lot of memory because it needs to re-index the XML structure tree. Therefore, they are often used in combination in actual use. For example, xstl is used on the server side to process documents and CSS is used on the client side to control the display.