This chapter discusses inserting an XSLT transformation into an XML stream. XSLT means “XSL Transformation” and is specified by the W3C at http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116.

XSLT is “a language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents,” according to the W3C Working Draft, August 13, 1999. XSLT supports the creation of new structured information from existing XML documents in order to facilitate sharing data. This conversion offers an easy way to share XML documents that conform to different DTDs.