Tailoring Content Using XML and XSL

Our Application

In this paper, I'm going to use Active Server Pages (ASP) to program the Microsoft MSXML component to transform a XML document to both HTML and WML, using XSLT. In a real application, the XML source can be generated from a database or otherwise dynamically created.

If you have installed Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, you already have a version of the MSXML component; however Microsoft has recently released an updated version of the XML parser, known as MSXML 3.0. The Microsoft XML Parser Technology Preview Release can be downloaded from http://msdn.microsoft.com/
downloads/webtechnology/xml/msxml.asp

Using XSL provides a clear separation of content and display. Data can be stored in databases and retrieved as XML source, while the presentation information is kept inside an XSL stylesheet. The XSLT processor will transform the XML source to the required output, based on the XSL stylesheet.