1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 2 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 3 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head> 4 <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> 5 <title>What are XSLTools and XSLForms?</title> 6 <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /></head> 7 <body> 8 <h1>What are XSLTools and XSLForms?</h1> 9 <p>XSLTools is the name of an entire distribution of modules, packages, examples and documentation; it includes...</p> 10 <ul> 11 <li>The XSLForms 12 framework for developing forms-based Web applications using XML and XSL stylesheets and transformations.</li> 13 <li>The XSLTools package for producing XML output.</li> 14 </ul> 15 <p>The relationship between these two technologies is summarised in the diagram below:</p> 16 <table style="width: 80%; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> 17 <tbody> 18 <tr> 19 <td width="40%"></td> 20 <th style="text-align: center;" width="60%">What it does</th> 21 </tr> 22 <tr> 23 <th style="background-color: rgb(193, 255, 102); text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">XSLForms</th> 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> 25 </tr> 26 <tr> 27 <th style="background-color: rgb(102, 203, 255); text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">XSLTools</th> 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> 29 </tr> 30 </tbody> 31 </table> 32 <p>XSLForms employs presentation templates which are converted to XSL 33 stylesheets, permitting the framework to take advantage of that 34 particular standardised and well-supported technology using XSLTools (specifically XSLOutput) 35 and, in turn, libxslt.</p> 36 </body></html>
