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manish jain
04-28-2000, 08:14 AM
I am comfortable with XML.
Can anybody tell me that what is XSL and why do anybody need XSL ???
Thanks.
Manish.

Philip Pastor
04-28-2000, 09:18 AM
Manish,

XSL is used to either transform XML data or format the XML data for
presentation in a browser.

A neat example of transforming data (if you have IE 5.0) is at ...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/samples/portfolio/sort.htm

After you test the links be sure to "View Source".

And, a fairly boring but illustrative example of using XSL to format the
presentation of XML (if you have IE 5.0) is at...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/samples/pole/pole.xml

Be sure to check out the XSL developer's guide which will then show you the
XSL documents that were used to modify the XML data at...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/xslguide/default.asp

HTH,

Phil

manish jain <manishj@obvision.com> wrote in message
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> I am comfortable with XML.
> Can anybody tell me that what is XSL and why do anybody need XSL ???
> Thanks.
> Manish.
>
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