| The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week recommended two new specifications.
XSL Transformations (XSLT) and XML Path Language (XPath) represent further agreement on technologies to enable the
standardization of transformation and styled presentation of XML documents.
XSLT enables one XML document to be transformed into another based on an
XSL stylesheet. XSLT is designed for use as part of XSL, an XML stylesheet
language. XSL specifies the styling of an XML document by using XSLT to
describe how the document is transformed into another XML document that uses
the formatting vocabulary. Although XSLT is also designed to be used
independently of XSL, it is not intended as a general-purpose XML
transformation language. Rather, it is designed primarily for the kinds of
transformations needed when XSLT is used as part of XSL.
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The primary purpose of XPath is to address parts of an XML document. In
support of this primary purpose, XPath also provides basic facilities to
manipulate strings, numbers and Booleans. XPath uses a compact, non-XML
syntax to facilitate its use within URIs and XML attribute values. XPath
operates on the abstract, logical structure of an XML document rather than
its surface syntax.
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XPath functions as part of the XSLT document transformation, addressing
parts of an XML document that an author wishes to transform. XPointer,
another XML technology, also uses XPath to specify locations in an XML
document. XSLT and XPath enable XML documents to be reformatted according to
the parameters of XSL stylesheets, thus increasing the presentation
flexibility of the XML architecture.
The XSLT Recommendation was written and developed by the XSL Working
Group, which includes such industry players as Adobe Systems, Bell Labs,
IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. The XPath
Recommendation combined efforts from the XSL Working Group and the XML
Linking Working Group, whose members include CommerceOne, CWI, Fujitsu, GMD,
Immediate Digital, Textuality, and the University of Southampton, as well as
some of the members of the XSL Working Group.
A W3C Recommendation indicates that a specification is stable,
contributes to Web interoperability, and has been reviewed by the W3C
membership, who by a general consensus favor its adoption by the industry.
W3C believes that the ideas or technology specified by a Recommendation are
appropriate for widespread deployment.
The W3C is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT
Laboratory for Computer Science in the United States, the National Institute
for Research in Computer Science and Control in France and Keio University
in Japan.
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