(From <TAG>): This is the first of a multiple-part series on XSLT, a very important W3C standard that provides a way of transforming XML documents from one structure to another. XSLT can be used to create HTML, so your XML documents can be viewed in a Web browser, or XSLT can be used to transform your XML documents to any other XML structure, or even non-XML structures.
In this first part, you will learn about the background of XSL and why it was broken up into two standards, XSL and XSLT. In following months, I will go over the syntax of XSLT and how to use it in your applications.