what is XSLT used for

[lfc77]

I'm a ASP.NET/C# programmer new to XSLT/XPath with a bit of experience of XML. I've been reading through some stuff on XSLT and I'm struggling to think of what situations I would want to use it in. Basically XSLT is like CSS for XML files, right (i.e. setting how the XML is displayed on screen)? The only use I can think of for this is if I have an XML file and I want to display it's contents to the screen in a datagrid style.

Can somebody please enlighten me and tell me what other uses XSLT can be put to!


Cheers,

lfc77

 

[chiph]

We use XSLT to isolate our internal XML formats for importing data from the published format that customers write to. If we change something internal to our systems, it will keep our customers from having to change their code too (which would be a nightmare).

Chip H.


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[lfc77]

Chip,

One thing I don't understand is...how does a customer send their XML to your webpage so that you can apply the XSLT to it? How do you send XML to a web page?


Any help would be really appreciated.


Cheers,

lfc77