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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) started to develop XSL because there was a need for an XML-based style sheet language.

XSLT is a language for transforming XML documents into XHTML documents or to other XML documents.

* XSLT stands for XSL Transformations
* XSLT is the most important part of XSL
* XSLT transforms an XML document into another XML document
* XSLT uses XPath to navigate in XML documents
* XSLT is a W3C Recommendation
XSLT is the most important part of XSL.

XSLT is used to transform an XML document into another XML document, or another type of document that is recognized by a browser, like HTML and XHTML. Normally XSLT does this by transforming each XML element into an (X)HTML element.

With XSLT you can add/remove elements and attributes to or from the output file. You can also rearrange and sort elements, perform tests and make decisions about which elements to hide and display, and a lot more.

A common way to describe the transformation process is to say that XSLT transforms an XML source-tree into an XML result-tree.

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