Web 2.0 describes a new approach to Web applications where thefunctionality is responsive, similar to desktop applications. Two ofthe main Web 2.0 approaches to building applications include workingwith Flash/Flex and Ajax.
The Ajax approach to building Web applications includes many existing technologies:
XHTML and CSS to describe the interface
DOM to work with the interface and loaded XML data
XML and XSLT to store and transform the data
The XMLHttpRequest object to connect to external data sources, usually XML documents
JavaScript to bind the technologies together to load data, manipulate the interface and respond to user interactions
In this article, I want to look at using JavaScript to apply an XSLTtransformation to an XML document. XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet LanguageTransformations) allows you to change an XML document into another kindof output. It transforms a source XML tree into a results tree and isoften used to generate XHTML from an XML document.
Specifically, in the article I?ll
- provide an overview of XSLT
- show how to apply transformations with JavaScript
- work through a simple example
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