UNIT-2

XML
 Contents
Introduction to SGML – features of XML - XML as a
subset of SGML – XML Vs HTML – Views of an XML
document - Syntax of XML- XML Document Structure
– Namespaces- XML Schemas- simple XML documents
– Different forms of markup that can occur in XML
documents - Document Type declarations – Creating
XML DTDs – Displaying XML Data in HTML browser –
Converting XML to HTML with XSL minimalist XSL style
sheets – XML applications
 SGML(ISO 8879)
• Standard Generalized Markup Language is a meta-
markup language which means it allows us to create
our own language or our own tags.
• The international standard for defining descriptions of
structure and content in text documents.
• Interchangeable: device-independent, system-
independent, tags are not predefined.
• Using DTD to validate the structure of the document
• Large, powerful, and very complex
• Heavily used in industrial and commercial usages for
over a decade
 XML Versions

• 1986 – SGML approved as International

Standard Organisation (ISO) Standard.
• 1990 – SGML used as basis for development
of HTML.
• 1998 – XML 1.0_First version of XML published
in February.
 What is XML?
• XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language that defines
a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is
both human-readable and machine-readable.
• XML is a markup language much like HTML
• XML was designed to store and transport data
• XML was designed to be self-descriptive
• XML is designed to carry data, not to display data.
• XML tags are not predefined. You must define your own
tags.
• XML is platform independent and language independent.
 Features of XML - 1
• Allows XML validation
– A XML document can be validated using DTD or XML schema. This
ensures that the XML document is syntactically correct and avoids any
issues that may arise due to the incorrect XML.
• XML focuses on data rather than how it looks
– XML is popular because it focuses on data rather than data
presentation. his separates the data and its presentation part and
gives us the freedom to present the data the way we want.
• Easy and efficient data sharing
– Since XML is software and hardware independent, it is easier to share
data between different systems with different hardware and software
configuration. Any system with any programming language can read
and process a XML document.
• Compatibility with other markup language HTML
– It is so much easier to read the data from XML and display it on an
GUI(graphical user interface) using HTML markup language.
 Features of XML - 2
• Supports platform transition
– XML simplifies the data is transportation on new upgraded systems
without any data loss.
• Adapts technology advancements
– it can adapt to the new technologies because of its platform-
independent nature.
• XML supports Unicode
– XML supports Unicode that allows it to communicate almost any
information in any written human language.
• XML can be used to create new internet languages
– A lot of new Internet languages are created with XML
 HTML vs XML
No. HTML XML
1) HTML is used to display data and focuses XML is a software and hardware
on how data looks. independent tool used to transport and
store data. It focuses on what data is.

2) HTML is a markup language itself. XML provides a framework to define

markup languages.

3) HTML is not case sensitive. XML is case sensitive.

4) HTML is a presentation language. XML is neither a presentation language

nor a programming language.

5) HTML has its own predefined tags. You can define tags according to your
need.
6) In HTML, it is not necessary to use a XML makes it mandatory to use a
closing tag. closing tag.
7) HTML is static because it is used to display XML is dynamic because it is used to
data. transport data.

8) HTML does not preserve whitespaces. XML preserve whitespaces.

 XML Components
The most basic components of an XML document are :
– Elements
– Control Information
– Entities

Elements:
• Elements are used to mark up the sections of an XML document. Elements
are the basic units used to identify and describe the data in XML. They are
the building blocks of an XML document. Elements are represented using
tags. An XML element has the following form:
<ElementName>Content</ElementName>

• The content is contained within the XML tags. Content refers to the
information represented by the elements of an XML document. 
• Empty Elements:Although XML tags usually enclose content, you can also have
elements that have no content, called empty elements. In XML, an empty element can
be represented as follows:
<ElementName/>

• Nested Elements:Elements can be nested. For example, if you wanted to group all the
patient information under a single Patient element, you might want to rewrite the
patient record example as follows:
<Patient>
<PatientName>John Smith</PatientName>
<PatientAge>108</PatientAge>
<PatientWeight>155</PatientWeight>
</Patient>
• Thus XML elements can contain other elements. However, the elements must be
strictly nested: each start tag must have a corresponding end tag.

• Attributes: Attributes provide additional information about the elements for which
they are declared. An attribute consists of a name-value pair. Consider the following
example:
<Student_name S_ID = “101”>shanshak </ Student_name >
Control Information:
This gives control to the XML document.

• Comments: Comments are statements used to explain the XML code. They are used to
provide documentation information about the XML file or the application to which the file
belongs. The parser ignores comments entries during code execution.
<!--Comment here-->

• Processing Instructions:  An XML Documents usually begins with the XML declaration
statement called the Processing Instructions .This statement provides information on how
the XML file should be processed. 
e.g. <?xml version =”1.0” encoding=”UTF-8”?> 
The Processing Instruction statement uses the encoding property to specify the encoding
scheme used to create the XML file

• DTD:DTD stands for Document Type Definition. It defines the legal building blocks of an
XML document. It is used to define document structure with a list of legal elements and
attributes. Each XML has associated DTD held in a separate file so that it can be used with
many document. DTD file holds the rules of grammar for a particular XML datastructure.
Rules are used by validating parsers to check.
<!DOCTYPE employee SYSTEM "employee.dtd">  
• CDATA: (Unparsed Character data): CDATA contains the text
which is not parsed further in an XML document. Tags inside
the CDATA text are not treated as markup and entities will not
be expanded.

<?xml version="1.0"?>  
<!DOCTYPE employee SYSTEM "employee.dtd">  
<employee>  
<![CDATA[  
  <firstname>vimal</firstname> 
  <lastname>jaiswal</lastname> 
  <email>[email protected]</email> 
]]>   
</employee>
  
• PCDATA: (Parsed Character Data): XML parsers are used to parse all the text in an XML document.
PCDATA stands for Parsed Character data. PCDATA is the text that will be parsed by a parser. Tags
inside the PCDATA will be treated as markup and entities will be expanded.
  employee.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>  
<!DOCTYPE employee SYSTEM "employee.dtd">  
<employee>  
  <firstname>vimal</firstname>  
  <lastname>jaiswal</lastname>  
  <email>[email protected]</email>  
</employee>  
  employee.dtd
<!ELEMENT employee (firstname,lastname,email)>  
<!ELEMENT firstname (#PCDATA)>  
<!ELEMENT lastname (#PCDATA)>  
<!ELEMENT email (#PCDATA)>  

Entities: 
An entity is a name that is associated with a block of data, such as chunk of text or a reference to
an external file that contains textual or binary information. It is a set of information that can be
specifying a single name.
 XML Document Structure
XML document is a tree structure which contain exactly one root element
which is the start tag of the XML document and it contains all other elements.
All elements in an XML document can contain sub elements, text and
attributes. The tree represented by an XML document starts at the root
element and branches to the lowest level of elements.
<root>
<section>
<sub-section></sub-section>
<sub-section></sub-section>
</section>
 
<section>
<sub-section></sub-section>
<sub-section></sub-section>
</section>
<root>
 XML Declaration

• XML documents must begin with a prolog that

appears before the root element. It has the
metadata about the XML document such as
character encoding, document structure an
stylesheets.
<?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”UTF-8”?>
 XML Syntax Rules -1
•  All XML documents must have a root element.
– A root element is simply a set of tags that contains your XML content.
<root>
<author>Ernest Hemingway</author>
<author>John Steinbeck</author>
<author>James Joyce</author>
</root>
• All XML elements must have a closing tag.
– When a tag is declared (opened), it must also be closed. Any unclosed
tags will break the code. Even tags that don’t need to be closed in
HTML must be closed in XML or XHTML. To open a tag, type the name
of the element between less-than (<) and greater-than (>) characters,
like this opening tag:<author>.To close a tag, repeat the opening tag
exactly, but insert a slash in front of the tag name, like this closing
tag:</author>.Even empty tags, such as <hr> and <br>, must be
closed.
<p>This is another paragraph</p>
 
 XML Syntax Rules -2
• Tag names have strict limits.
– Tag names can’t start with the letters xml, a number, or punctuation,
except for the underscore character (_).
– The letters XML are used in various commands and can’t start your tag
name. Numbers and punctuation also aren’t allowed in the beginning of
the tag name.
<author> or <_author>
• XML tags are case sensitive.
– Uppercase and lowercase matter in XML. Opening and closing tags must
match exactly. For example, <ROOT>, <Root>, and <root> are three
different tags.
<author>Hemingway</author> or
<AUTHOR>Hemingway</AUTHOR>
• Tag Names cannot contain spaces
– Spaces in tag names can cause all sorts of problems with data-intensive
applications, so they’re prohibited in XML.
•  
 XML Syntax Rules -3

• Attribute values must always be quoted.

– Attribute values modify a tag or help identify the type of information
being tagged. If you’re a web designer, you may be used to the
flexibility of HTML, in which some attributes don’t require quotes. In
XML, all attribute values must appear within quotes. For example
<chapter number="1">
<artist title="author" nationality="USA">
 
• White Space is preserved
– XML does not truncate multiple white-spaces (HTML truncates
multiple white-spaces to one single white-space)
 XML Namespace
• Sometimes we need to create two different elements by the same name.
The XML document allows us to create different elements which are
having the common name. This technique is known as namespace.
XML Namespace is used to avoid element name conflict in XML
document.
XML Namespace Declaration:
• An XML namespace is declared using the reserved XML attribute. This
attribute name must be started with "xmlns".
<element xmlns:name = "URL">  
• Here, namespace starts with keyword "xmlns". The word name is a
namespace prefix. The URL is a namespace identifier.
• To avoid these types of confliction we use XML Namespaces. We can say
that XML Namespaces provide a method to avoid element name conflict.
• Generally these conflict occurs when we try to mix XML documents from
different XML application.
Let's take an example with two tables:
Table1:
<table>  
  <tr>  
    <td>Aries</td>  
    <td>Bingo</td>  
  </tr>  
</table>   
Table2: This table carries information about a computer table.
<table>  
  <name>Computer table</name>  
  <width>80</width>  
  <length>120</length>  
</table>   
If you add these both XML fragments together, there would be a name
conflict because both have <table> element. Although they have different
name and meaning.
 How to get rid of name conflict?
1) By Using a Prefix
You can easily avoid the XML namespace by using a name prefix.
<h:table>  
  <h:tr>  
    <h:td>Aries</h:td>  
    <h:td>Bingo</h:td>  
  </h:tr>  
</h:table>  
<f:table>  
  <f:name>Computer table</f:name>  
  <f:width>80</f:width>  
  <f:length>120</f:length>  
</f:table> 
In this example, you will get no conflict because both the tables have
specific names.
2) By Using xmlns Attribute
You can use xmlns attribute to define namespace with the following syntax:
<element xmlns:name = "URL">  
Let's see the example:
<root>  
<h:table xmlns:h="http://www.abc.com/TR/html4/">  
  <h:tr>  
    <h:td>Aries</h:td>  
     <h:td>Bingo</h:td>  
  </h:tr>  
</h:table>  
  
<f:table xmlns:f="http://www.xyz.com/furniture">  
  <f:name>Computer table</f:name>  
  <f:width>80</f:width>  
  <f:length>120</f:length>  
</f:table>  
</root> 
In the above example, the <table> element defines a namespace and when a
namespace is defined for an element, the child elements with the same
prefixes are associated with the same namespace.
 <root xmlns:h="http://www.abc.com/TR/html4/"  
xmlns:f="http://www.xyz.com/furniture">  
<h:table>  
  <h:tr>  
    <h:td>Aries</h:td>  
    <h:td>Bingo</h:td>  
  </h:tr>  
</h:table>  
<f:table>  
  <f:name>Computer table</f:name>  
  <f:width>80</f:width>  
  <f:length>120</f:length>  
</f:table>  
</root>   
The Namespace URI used in the above example is not necessary at all. It is not used by parser
to look up information. It is only used to provide a unique name to the Namespace identifier.
 Uniform Resource Identifier (URI):
 Uniform Resource Identifier is used to identify the internet resource. It is a string of
characters.
 The most common URI is URL (Uniform Resource Locator) which identifies an internet
domain address.
 There is also an URI name URN (Universal Resource Name) but it is not so common.
The Default Namespace:
• The default namespace is used in the XML document to save you from
using prefixes in all the child elements. The only difference between
default namespace and a simple namespace is that: There is no need to
use a prefix in default namespace. You can also use multiple namespaces
within the same document just define a namespace against a child node.
Example of Default Namespace:
<tutorials xmlns="http://www.javatpoint.com/java-tutorial">  
  <tutorial>  
    <title>Java-tutorial</title>  
    <author>Sonoo Jaiswal</author>  
  </tutorial>  
  ...  
</tutorials>  
• You can see that prefix is not used in this example, so it is a default
namespace. If you define a namespace without a prefix, all descendant
elements are considered to belong to that namespace.
 DTD
• A DTD is a Document Type Definition.
• A DTD defines the structure and the legal elements and attributes
of an XML document. DTDs check the validity of structure and
vocabulary of an XML document against the grammatical rules of
the appropriate XML language.
• With a DTD, independent groups of people can agree on a standard
DTD for interchanging data.
• An application can use a DTD to verify that XML data is valid.
 
Types of DTD:
DTD can be classified on its declaration basis in the XML document,
such as −
– Internal DTD
– External DTD
An Internal DTD Declaration:
• If the DTD is declared inside the XML file, it must be wrapped inside the <!DOCTYPE> definition:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE note [
<!ELEMENT note (to,from,heading,body)>
<!ELEMENT to (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT from (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT heading (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT body (#PCDATA)>
]>
<note>
<to>Tove</to>
<from>Jani</from>
<heading>Reminder</heading>
<body>Don't forget me this weekend</body>
</note>

• The DTD above is interpreted like this:

– !DOCTYPE note defines that the root element of this document is note
– !ELEMENT note defines that the note element must contain four elements:
"to,from,heading,body"
– !ELEMENT to defines the to element to be of type "#PCDATA"
– !ELEMENT from defines the from element to be of type "#PCDATA"
– !ELEMENT heading defines the heading element to be of type "#PCDATA"
– !ELEMENT body defines the body element to be of type "#PCDATA"
An External DTD Declaration:
• If the DTD is declared in an external file, the <!DOCTYPE>
definition must contain a reference to the DTD file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE note SYSTEM "note.dtd">
<note>
  <to>Tove</to>
  <from>Jani</from>
  <heading>Reminder</heading>
  <body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>
</note>
• And here is the file "note.dtd", which contains the DTD:
<!ELEMENT note (to,from,heading,body)>
<!ELEMENT to (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT from (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT heading (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT body (#PCDATA)>
Merits of DTD:
1.DTDs are used to define the structural components of XML document.
2. These are relatively simple and compact.
3. DTDs can be defined inline and hence can be embedded directly in the XML
document.
4. Documentation − You can define your own format for the XML files. Looking at this
document a user/developer can understand the structure of the data.
5.Validation − It gives a way to check the validity of XML files by checking whether the
elements appear in the right order, mandatory elements and attributes are in place, the
elements and attributes have not been inserted in an incorrect way, and so on.

Demerits of DTD:
1.The DTDs are very basic and hence cannot be much specific for complex document.
2.The language that DTD uses is not an XML document. Hence various frameworks
used by XML cannot be supported by the DTDs.
3.The DTD cannot define the type of data contained within the XML document. Hence
we cannot specify whether the element is numeric or string data type.
4.There are some XML processor which do not understand DTDs.
5.The DTDs are not aware of namespace concept. It does not support the namespaces
 XML Schemas
• XML Schema is commonly known as XML Schema
Definition (XSD) which is a language ffor XML Schema.
• It is used to describe and validate the structure and
the content of XML data. 
• XML schema defines the elements, attributes and data
types. 
• Schema element supports Namespaces.
• It is similar to a database schema that describes the
data in a database.
• It also allows the developer to use data types.
• This can be used as an alternative to XML DTD.
 DTD vs XSD
No. DTD XSD

1) DTD stands forDocument XSD stands for XML Schema

Type Definition. Definition.

2) DTDs are derived XSDs are written in XML.

fromSGML syntax.

3) DTD doesn't support XSD supports datatypes for

datatypes. elements and attributes.

4) DTD doesn't support XSD supports namespace.

namespace.

5) DTD doesn't define XSD defines order for child

order for child elements. elements.

6) DTD is not extensible. XSD is extensible.

7) DTD is not simple to XSD is simple to

learn. learn because you don't need
to learn new language.
 Advantages of XML schemas over DTDs
i.XML schema use basic XML syntax XML schemas are created by using XML syntax
whereas DTD’s use separate syntax.
ii.XML schema support namespace XML schemas support namespace functionality,
but DTDs doesn’t support this functionality completely. They also allow the usage
of multiple namespaces in XML documents with less rigidity. For example, while
designing an XML schema the prefixes of namespace are not required since the
end-user to decide it. But, in DTDs the namespace prefixes are essential to be
specified.
iii.XML schema allow the validation of text elements based on datatypes XML
schemas specify the type of textual data that can be used within attributes and
elements. This is done by the simple type declarations . Hence XML schemas can
control the documents more rigidly. The most important feature of XML schemas is
that , it include the commonly used simple types
iv.XML schema allows the creation of complex and reusable content models easily In
a DTD , content model can be reused only when the utilization of parameter
entities is allowed . But , this may lead to some situations where the parts of DTD
are difficult to be reusable. XML schemas provide a wide variety of mechanisms to
reuse the content models and also model some complex programming concepts
easily.
 Description of XML Schema
• <xs:element name="employee"> : It defines the element
name employee.
• <xs:complexType> : It defines that the element
'employee' is complex type.
• <xs:sequence> : It defines that the complex type is a
sequence of elements.
• <xs:element name="firstname" type="xs:string"/> : It
defines that the element 'firstname' is of string/text type.
• <xs:element name="lastname" type="xs:string"/> : It
defines that the element 'lastname' is of string/text type.
• <xs:element name="email" type="xs:string"/> : It
defines that the element 'email' is of string/text type
 XML Schema Data types
• There are two types of data types in XML schema.
– simpleType
– complexType
• SimpleType
– The simpleType allows you to have text-based elements. It contains
less attributes, child elements, and cannot be left empty.
• <xs:element name="Customer_dob" type="xs:date" />
• <xs:element name="Customer_address" type="xs:string" />
• <xs:element name="Supplier_phone" type="xs:integer" />
• <xs:element name="Supplier_address" type="xs:string" />
• ComplexType
– The complexType allows you to hold multiple attributes and elements.
It can contain additional sub elements and can be left empty.
• <xs:element name = "name" type = "xs:string" />
• <xs:element name = "company" type = "xs:string" />
 XML Schema Example
employee.xsd
<?xml version="1.0"?>  
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"  
targetNamespace="http://www.javatpoint.com"  
xmlns="http://www.javatpoint.com"  
elementFormDefault="qualified">  
  
<xs:element name="employee">  
  <xs:complexType>  
    <xs:sequence>  
      <xs:element name="firstname" type="xs:string"/>  
      <xs:element name="lastname" type="xs:string"/>  
      <xs:element name="email" type="xs:string"/>  
    </xs:sequence>  
  </xs:complexType>  
</xs:element>  
  
</xs:schema>  
employee.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>  
<employee  
xmlns="http://www.javatpoint.com"  
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.javatpoint.com employee.xsd">  
  
  <firstname>vimal</firstname>  
  <lastname>jaiswal</lastname>  
  <email>[email protected]</email>  
</employee>  
 Global Types

• With the global type, you can define a single type in your document, which
can be used by all other references. For example, suppose you want to
generalize the person and company for different addresses of the company.
In such case, you can define a general type as follows −

– <xs:element name = "AddressType">

– <xs:complexType>
– <xs:sequence>
– <xs:element name = "name" type = "xs:string" />
– <xs:element name = "company" type = "xs:string" />
– </xs:sequence>
– </xs:complexType>
– </xs:element>
• Now let us use this type in our example as follows −
– <xs:element name = "Address1">
– <xs:complexType>
– <xs:sequence>
– <xs:element name = "address" type = "AddressType" />
– <xs:element name = "phone1" type = "xs:int" />
– </xs:sequence>
– </xs:complexType>
– </xs:element>
 
– <xs:element name = "Address2">
– <xs:complexType>
– <xs:sequence>
– <xs:element name = "address" type = "AddressType" />
– <xs:element name = "phone2" type = "xs:int" />
– </xs:sequence>
– </xs:complexType>
– </xs:element>
• Instead of having to define the name and the company twice (once for Address1 and
once for Address2), we now have a single definition. This makes maintenance simpler,
i.e., if you decide to add "Postcode" elements to the address, you need to add them at
just one place.
 Attributes
• Attributes in XSD provide extra information within
an element. Attributes
have name and type property as shown below –
• Syntax:
<xs:attribute name = "Name_of_attribute" type =
"data_type"/>
• Example:
<xs:attribute name = "designation" type =
"xs:string"/>
 XSL
• XSL is a language for expressing style sheets. An XSL
style sheet is, like with CSS, a file that describes how to
display an XML document of a given type. XSL shares
the functionality and is compatible with CSS2 (although
it uses a different syntax). It also adds:
• a. A transformation language for XML
documents: XSLT.
• b. A navigation language for XML documents: XPath.
• c. A formatting language for XML documents: XSL-FO
 XSLT

XSLT, Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations, provides the ability

to transform XML data from one format to another automatically.
How XSLT Works
An XSLT stylesheet is used to define the transformation rules to be applied
on the target XML document. XSLT stylesheet is written in XML format.
XSLT Processor takes the XSLT stylesheet and applies the transformation
rules on the target XML document and then it generates a formatted
document in the form of XML, HTML, or text format. This formatted
document is then utilized by XSLT formatter to generate the actual output
which is to be displayed to the end-user.
Advantages
– Independent of programming. Transformations are written in a
separate xsl file which is again an XML document.
– Output can be altered by simply modifying the transformations in xsl
file. No need to change any code. So Web designers can edit the
stylesheet and can see the change in the output quickly.
 XSLT Elements
XSLT <xsl:element>
• The <xsl:element> element is used to create and name an element node in the
output document.
• Syntax
<xsl:element
name="element_name"
namespace="URI"
use-attribute-sets="namelist">
  <!-- Content:template -->
</xsl:element>
 
XSLT <template> Element
• A template contains rules to apply when a specified node is matched.
• Following is the syntax declaration of <xsl:template> element:
<xsl:template name= Qname match = Pattern priority = number mode = QName>
…
</xsl:template>
 XSLT Elements
XSLT <xsl:apply-template> Element
• The XSLT <xsl:apply-template> element is used to tell XSLT processor to find the
appropriate template to apply according to the type and context of each selected
node.
<xsl:apply-template   
   select = Expression   
   mode = QName>  
</xsl:apply-template> 
 
XSLT <xsl:value-of> Element
• The XSLT <xsl:value-of> element is used to extract the value of selected node. It puts
the value of selected node as per XPath expression, as text.
<xsl:value-of  
   select = Expression  
   disable-output-escaping = "yes" | "no">  
</xsl:value-of>
 
 XSLT Elements
• XSLT <xsl:for-each> Element
• The XSLT <xsl:for-each> element is used to apply a template repeatedly for each node.
<xsl:for-each  
   select = Expression>    
</xsl:for-each>

Example:
<xsl:for-each select="class/employee">   
                  <tr>   
                     <td>   
                        <!-- value-of processing instruction   
                        process the value of the element matching the XPath expression   
                        -->   
                        <xsl:value-of select = "@id"/>   
                     </td>   
                     <td><xsl:value-of select = "firstname"/></td>   
                     <td><xsl:value-of select = "lastname"/></td>   
                     <td><xsl:value-of select = "nickname"/></td>   
                     <td><xsl:value-of select = "salary"/></td>     
                  </tr>   
               </xsl:for-each>
 
 XSLT Elements
XSLT <xsl:sort> Element
• The XSLT <xsl:sort> element is used to specify a sort criteria on the nodes. It displays the
output in sorted form.
• The <xml:sort> element is added inside the <xsl:for-each> element in the XSL file, to sort the
output.
<xsl:sort   
   select = string-expression    
   lang = { nmtoken }   
   data-type = { "text" | "number" | QName }   
   order = { "ascending" | "descending" }   
   case-order = { "upper-first" | "lower-first" } >   
</xsl:sort> 
 XSLT <xsl:if> Element
• The XSLT <xsl:if> element is used to specify a conditional test against the content of the XML
file.
<xsl:if test="expression">  
  ...some output if the expression is true...  
</xsl:if> 
 
 XSLT Elements
XSLT <xsl:choose> Element
• The XSLT <xsl:choose> element is used to specify
a multiple conditional test against the content of
nodes with the <xsl:otherwise> and <xsl:when>
elements.
Example:
<xsl:choose>  
<xsl:choose>   
  <xsl:when test="expression">                  <xsl:when test = "salary > 50000">   
    ... some output ...                  High   
  </xsl:when>                  </xsl:when>   
  <xsl:otherwise>              
    ... some output ....                  <xsl:when test = "salary > 40000">   
               Medium   
  </xsl:otherwise>  
               </xsl:when>   
</xsl:choose>              
                 <xsl:otherwise>   
               Low   
               </xsl:otherwise>   
               </xsl:choose>   
 XSLT Elements

• XSLT <xsl:import> Element

• The XSLT <xsl:import> element is used to
import the content of one stylesheet to
another stylesheet. The importing stylesheet
has higher precedence over imported
stylesheet.
<xsl:import href = "uri">   
</xsl:import>
 References
• https://www.w3schools.com/xml/
• https://www.tutorialspoint.com/xml/index.ht
m
• https://beginnersbook.com/2018/10/xml-tuto
rial-learn-xml/
• https://www.javatpoint.com/xml-tutorial
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/xml-basics/
• https://www.quackit.com/xml/tutorial/