How to make the XML to XHTML Transformation

**DayanandPatil** · 02-02-2009

Hi,

Can any one suggest me what all things I have to consider while transforming the content from the XML to XHTML and if also possible please provide me the example or Two.

Thanks in Advance.

**Khushal** · 02-02-2009

Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT), a powerful language for working with data in Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents.Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) is a powerful language for manipulating the data in Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents. To manipulate the data - in other words, to transform the XML document - you use an XSLT stylesheet, which contains the rules you've set up for transforming an XML document.

**Adley** · 02-02-2009

Below I show you a simple XHTML input document and an XSLT stylesheet to transform it to a new XHTML document. In this example we want to keep everything in the input document but we also want to add a CSS stylesheet to the head section and a navigation menu to the top of the body section.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> [2]
<html  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>Test document</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Test document</h1>
    <p>This paragraph indicates the rest of the document.</p>
  </body>
</html>

**DayanandPatil** · 02-02-2009

That's awesome, now I wish I didn't take the day off today. So you are saying importNode will make it so when I append the xml node, which is xhtml, it will treat it as html and display properly in the page? If so, that's gonna make things way easier.