Monday, October 25, 2004

XML to XHTML vis XSLT

Too many acronyms there. I started playing around with a new technology today. Welll, it is new to me, anyway. I am having to transform some data from a web service into HTML. I have only started working with XSLT. I am doing some very basic transformations which takes the data in the XML dataset and put it in a tabular format that is easily read by the viewer of the pagelet.

I downloaded the Unicorn XSLT Processor to do the transformations after I created my XSLT. It is command line driven, but it works well for what I am doing.

One thing that I need to do next is learn how to apply a style sheet (CSS) to the HTML as I do the transformation so that I can get the proper look that I want.