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 <LI><A href="#intro">Introduction</A></LI>
 <LI><A href="#features">Xalan-Java Features</A></LI>
 <LI><A href="#towork">Getting to work with Xalan-Java</A></LI>
 <LI><A href="#uptospeed">Getting up to speed with XSLT</A></LI>
 <LI><A href="#glossary">Glossary</A></LI>
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 <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="494"><TR><TD bgcolor="666699" colspan="2" width="494"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="494"><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="492"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="492"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="492"><FONT color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="+1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="2" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="2"><B>Introduction</B></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="492"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="492"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10">&nbsp;</TD><TD width="484"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
 <P>Xalan-Java fully implements <A href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt" target="_top">XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0</A>
    and the <A href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath" target="_top">XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0</A>. XSLT is the first part of the XSL stylesheet language for
    XML. It includes the XSL Transformation vocabulary and XPath, a language for addressing parts of
    XML documents. For links to background materials, discussion groups, frequently asked questions,
    and tutorials on XSLT, see <A href="#uptospeed">Getting up to speed with XSLT</A>.</P>
 <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" width="100%"><TR><TD valign="top" width="20"><IMG alt="Note" border="0" height="24" hspace="0" src="resources/note.gif" vspace="0" width="20"></TD><TD valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"><I>XSL also includes a vocabulary for formatting documents, which is not part of Xalan-Java.
       For more information, see <A href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl" target="_top">Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.0</A> and the <A href="http://xml.apache.org/fop">Apache XML FOP (Formatting Objects Project)</A>.</I></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
 <P>XSL stylesheets are written in the XSLT language. An XSL stylesheet contains instructions
    for transforming XML documents into XML, HTML, XHTML or plain text. In structural terms, an XSL
    stylesheet specifies the transformation of one tree of
    nodes (the XML input) into another tree of nodes (the output or transformation result).</P>
 <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" width="100%"><TR><TD valign="top" width="20"><IMG alt="Note" border="0" height="24" hspace="0" src="resources/note.gif" vspace="0" width="20"></TD><TD valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"><I>The XSL stylesheet may generate and refer to cascading style sheets (<A href="http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/">CSS</A>) as part of its output.</I></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
 <P>In the following example, the foo.xsl stylesheet is used to transform foo.xml into foo.out:</P>
 <P>foo.xml:</P>
 <DIV align="right"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" width="464"><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#ffffff" width="462"><FONT size="-1"><PRE>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt;
 &lt;doc&gt;Hello&lt;/doc&gt;</PRE></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></DIV>
         <P>foo.xsl:</P>
         <DIV align="right"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" width="464"><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#ffffff" width="462"><FONT size="-1"><PRE>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt;
 &lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&quot;1.0&quot;&gt;
 &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;doc&quot;&gt;
 &lt;out&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;.&quot;/&gt;&lt;/out&gt;
 &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
 &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;</PRE></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></DIV>
 <P>foo.out:</P>
 <DIV align="right"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" width="464"><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#ffffff" width="462"><FONT size="-1"><PRE>&lt;out&gt;Hello&lt;/out&gt;</PRE></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></DIV>
 <P>By default, Xalan-Java uses Xerces-Java, but it may be configured with system properties to work with
    other XML parsers (see <A href="usagepatterns.html#plug">Plugging in a Transformer and
    XML parser</A>). The input may be submitted in the form of a stream of XML markup (from a URI,
    a character or byte stream, or another transformation), a SAX InputStream, or a DOM Node.</P>
 <P>Xalan-Java performs the transformations specified in the XSL stylesheet and packages a sequence of
    SAX events that may be serialized to an output stream or writer, used to build a DOM tree, or
    forwarded as input to another transformation.</P>
 </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><BR>

 <A name="features"><!--anchor--></A>
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 <UL>
   <LI>Includes an Interpretive processor for use in a tooling and debugging environment and
       a Compiling processor (XSLTC) for use in a high performance runtime environment.<BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>Implements the relevant W3C specifications: <A href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt" target="_top">XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0</A> and
       <A href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath" target="_top">XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0</A>.<BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>Implements <A href="http://java.sun.com/webservices/jaxp/index.jsp" target="_top">Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.3</A>, and builds on
       <A href="http://sax.sourceforge.net/" target="_top">SAX 2</A> and <A href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407/" target="_top">DOM level 3</A>.<BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>Implements the XPath API in <A href="http://java.sun.com/webservices/jaxp/index.jsp" target="_top">JAXP 1.3</A>.<BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>May be configured to work with any XML parser, such as
       <A href="http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-j/index.html">Xerces-Java</A>, that implements
       <A href="http://java.sun.com/webservices/jaxp/index.jsp" target="_top">JAXP 1.3</A> (see <A href="usagepatterns.html#plug">Plugging in an XML
       parser</A>).<BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>Can process Stream, SAX or DOM input, and output to a Stream, SAX or DOM.<BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>Transformations may be chained (the output of one transformation may be the input for
       another).<BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>May be run from the <A href="commandline.html">command line</A> for convenient file-to-file
       transformations.<BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>Includes an <A href="usagepatterns.html#applet">applet wrapper</A>.<BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>May be used in a <A href="samples.html#servlet">servlet</A> to transform XML documents
       into HTML and serve the results to clients.<BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>Supports the creation of <A href="extensions.html">Java and scripting language extensions</A>.
       and provides a growing library of extension elements and functions.</LI>
 </UL>
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 <A name="towork"><!--anchor--></A>
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 <P>For instructions and some suggestions about how to get started using the XSLT Interpretive
    processor, see <A href="getstarted.html">Getting Started with Interpretive Processing</A>.</P>
 <P>For instructions and some suggestions about how to get started using the XSLT Compiling
    processor, see <A href="xsltc_usage.html">Getting Started with XSLTC</A>.</P>
 </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><BR>

 <A name="uptospeed"><!--anchor--></A>
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 <P>If you are still working through the details of the XSLT spec (the W3C 1.0 Recommendation), you
    may want to consult one or more of the following:</P>
 <UL>
   <LI>XSLT - XSL Transformations in
       <A href="http://www.brics.dk/~amoeller/XML/">
       The XML Revolution: Technologies for the future Web</A> by Anders M&oslash;ller and Michael
       I. Schwartzbach (Web pages, but designed for sequential reading)<BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>Crane Softwright's <A href="http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/training/">Free preview of
       Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath</A><BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>Doug Tidwell's <A href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xslt/">XSLT</A>, O'Reilly, 2001
       <BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>Bob Ducharme's <A href="http://www.manning.com/ducharme/index.html">XSLT Quickly</A>,
       Manning Publications, 2001<BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>John Robert Gardner and Zarella Rendon's
       <A href="http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/product/1,4096,0130404462,00.html">XSLT
       and XPath: A Guide to Transformations</A>, Prentice-Hall, 2001<BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>Michael Kay's <A href="http://www.wrox.com/books/0764543814.shtml">XSLT
       Programmer's Reference</A>, 2nd ed., Wrox Press, 2001<BR><BR></LI>

   <LI>Dave Pawson's <A href="http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/" target="_top">XSL Frequently Asked Questions</A> to search out particular answers and
       techniques<BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>Miloslav Nic's <A href="http://zvon.vscht.cz/HTMLonly/XSLTutorial/Books/Book1/index.html">XSL
       Tutorial</A>, a collection of stylesheet examples<BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>Elliotte Rusty Harold's <A href="http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/chapters/ch17.html">
       Chapter 17 of the XML Bible: XSL Transformations</A><BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>The Mulberry <A href="http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/">XSL-List -- Open Forum on
       XSL</A> (of interest to XSL users at all levels)<BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>Objects by Design's <A href="http://www.objectsbydesign.com/projects/xmi_to_html.html">
       Transforming XMI to HTML</A> (oriented towards XMI, &quot;an XML-based, stream representation
       of a UML model,&quot; but also covers &quot;generic&quot; XML transformations) and their related
       <A href="http://objectsbydesign.com/projects/xslt/xslt_by_example.html">XSLT by Example</A>
       <BR><BR></LI>
   <LI>OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards):
       <A href="http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/xsl.html">Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)</A>
       by Robin Cover<BR><BR></LI>
 </UL>
 <P>When you come across other useful introductory or background materials, please email
    <A href="mailto:dev@xalan.apache.org">Xalan Development Mailing List</A>, so we can add them to this list.</P>

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 <DL>
   <DT>XSLT Namespace</DT>
   <DD>The <A href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">XML namespace</A> for XSLT. An XML
         namespace is a collection of element and attribute names, identified by a Unique Resource
         Identifier (URI), which often takes the form of a URL, but is really just a unique string,
         not a pointer to a web page. The XSLT namespace URI is http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform.
         In each XSLT stylesheet, you must declare this namespace in the stylesheet element tag and
         bind it to a local prefix. Like the XSLT specification, we always use xsl as the XSLT
         namespace prefix in our descriptions and examples, although you are free to bind any prefix
         to this namespace.<BR><BR></DD>

   <DT>XSL Instruction</DT>
   <DD>Any tag associated with the XSLT namespace.<BR><BR></DD>

   <DT>Template</DT>
   <DD>An element, usually with child elements, that specifies a &quot;rule&quot; or set of
         instructions to perform when a particular kind of node is encountered in the source
         tree.<BR><BR></DD>

   <DT>XSL Template Instruction</DT>
   <DD>Any tag that occurs inside an xsl:template element and is associated with the XSLT
         namespace.<BR><BR></DD>

   <DT>Source Tree</DT>
   <DD>The XML tree input to the XSL process.<BR><BR></DD>

   <DT>Result Tree</DT>
   <DD>The tree that is output by the XSL process.<BR><BR></DD>

   <DT>Match Pattern</DT>
   <DD>The part of a template that defines the kind(s) of nodes to which the template
         applies.<BR><BR></DD>

 </DL>
 <P>For more definitions of XSLT terminology, see Dave Pawson's
    <A href="http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/xslvocab.html">XSLT Terminology
    Clarification</A> and the Glossary in Michael Kay's
    <A href="http://www.wrox.com/books/0764543814.shtml">XSLT Programmer's Reference</A>.</P>
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