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| paulb@615 | 5 | <title>What are XSLTools and XSLForms?</title> |
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| paulb@128 | 8 | <h1>What are XSLTools and XSLForms?</h1> |
| paulb@128 | 9 | <p>XSLTools is the name of an entire distribution of modules, packages, examples and documentation; it includes...</p> |
| paulb@128 | 10 | <ul> |
| paulb@128 | 11 | <li>The XSLForms |
| paulb@128 | 12 | framework for developing forms-based Web applications using XML and XSL stylesheets and transformations.</li> |
| paulb@270 | 13 | <li>The XSLTools package for producing XML output.</li> |
| paulb@128 | 14 | </ul> |
| paulb@128 | 15 | <p>The relationship between these two technologies is summarised in the diagram below:</p> |
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| paulb@128 | 20 | <th style="text-align: center;" width="60%">What it does</th> |
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| paulb@128 | 22 | <tr> |
| paulb@128 | 23 | <th style="background-color: rgb(193, 255, 102); text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">XSLForms</th> |
| paulb@128 | 24 | <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"><span class="explanation">This is a solution which models Web form data as XML documents, presenting such documents using presentation templates.</span></td> |
| paulb@128 | 25 | </tr> |
| paulb@128 | 26 | <tr> |
| paulb@270 | 27 | <th style="background-color: rgb(102, 203, 255); text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">XSLTools</th> |
| paulb@128 | 28 | <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"><span class="explanation">This provides the presentation support, producing Web pages from XML documents and XSL stylesheets.</span></td> |
| paulb@128 | 29 | </tr> |
| paulb@128 | 30 | </tbody> |
| paulb@128 | 31 | </table> |
| paulb@128 | 32 | <p>XSLForms employs presentation templates which are converted to XSL |
| paulb@128 | 33 | stylesheets, permitting the framework to take advantage of that |
| paulb@270 | 34 | particular standardised and well-supported technology using XSLTools (specifically XSLOutput) |
| paulb@128 | 35 | and, in turn, libxslt.</p> |
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