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Making XSL File
In the previous chapters, you learned about HTML. You can use that knowledge and apply it in this chapter so that you would know hot to make a stylesheet by making an XSL file.
Using your HTML knowledge from the earlier chapters, you can make a stylesheet like the one below.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="classcard"> <html> <body> <h2>Classcards</h2> <table border="1"> <tr> <td>Name</td> <td>Grade</td> </tr> <xsl:for-each select="card"> <tr> <td><xsl:value-of select="name"/></td> <td><xsl:value-of select="result"/></td> </tr> </xsl:for-each> </table> </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
Save it in *.XSL format. It should look something like this on your desktop 
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Simply insert the reference to the stylesheet in an XML file like how it was done below.
<?xml version = "1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="ccformat.xsl"?> <classcard dategiven = "9/27/05" xmlns:xlink = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" > <card> <name> Sara </name> <subject> programming </subject> <result> <grade> 3.5/4.0 </grade> very industrious and recites a lot </result> <complaints xlink:href = "http://www.mcdonalds.com"> Eats McDonald’s in the middle of class </complaints> </card> <card> <name> Michael </name> <subject> programming </subject> <result> <grade> 3.0/4.0 </grade> does well on written exams but does not recite </result> <complaints> </complaints> </card> </classcard>
Open your browser and the resulting XML file should look like the image below.
