[[!meta  title="eXtensible Style Language Transforms"]]

Often data is stored in
<abbr title="eXtensible Markup Language">XML</abbr> files must be
massaged into other formats (e.g. [[DocBook to roff|DocBook 5]]).
There are well developed procedures for defining such transformations
([XSLT][]) and a number of tools to apply them (e.g. [xsltproc][]).

Besides the [W3 tutorial][w3], there is also a nice
[introduction][intro] by Paul Grosso and Norman Walsh.  I've copied a
simple [[example|chapter]] from this intro and also included a
[[slightly more complicated setup|code]] for generating online help
for a list of macros.

[XSLT]: http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
[w3]: http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/
[intro]: http://nwalsh.com/docs/tutorials/xsl/xsl/slides.html
[xsltproc]: http://www.xmlsoft.org/XSLT/

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