XSLT

XSLT, Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations, is a declarative language for transforming text, particularly for converting XML documents into other formats such as HTML, plain text, XSL formatting objects for PDF or PostScript, or other XML. It was developed and standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium as part of the broader Extensible Stylesheet Language initiative, influenced by functional and pattern-matching languages such as SNOBOL and AWK, with DSSSL as its most direct predecessor. XSLT 1.0 became a W3C recommendation in November 1999, XSLT 2.0 in January 2007, and XSLT 3.0 on June 8, 2017. An XSLT processor reads an XML source document, applies template rules from a stylesheet based on pattern matching, and produces a restructured output document, making it useful for data transformation, document formatting and cross-format conversion. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/