Bowser based XSL transformations offer a handy and powerful way in integrating XML data to web applications. In combination with HTTP server requests, as introduced by Ajax, the data structures can be loaded and rendered in common HTML code. Reuse of the documents inreases and a server-side parsing and transformation becomes obsolete. more »
Extensible Stylesheet Language, or short XSL, is a family of related technologies designed to transofrm XML data.
This definition may seem not very spectecular, but the truth is far from the matter. XSLT is an often unused and underestimated technology. Current browsers like IE and Firefox have an integrated XSLT parser and are fully capable of doing tranformations on their own. Using XSLT in browsers is very straight forward and opens the door for a lot of nice and handy ideas. more »