Chapter 10. Converting from One XML Format to Another with XSLT

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

—Genesis 11:7

This chapter presents a basic introduction to XSLT and XPath. It is primarily intended to provide end users with a practical tutorial on the XSLT and XPath features most applicable to electronic commerce and EAI applications. It may also give application developers a realistic understanding of XSLT and the role it can play in application architectures.

In this chapter we change our focus from the relatively detailed, developer-oriented concerns of the previous four chapters to more user-oriented issues. While the chapter retains a technical focus, it is at a lighter, introductory level.