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December 28, 2001 Populating an HTML Template with XML Data  Tips: December 2001
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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To convert an XML file to HTML, you start by writing the skeleton of the HTML file, specifying all tags such as <BODY> and <H1>. The content between each pair of tags is selected by XML directives. Take a look at the following line:
xsl:value of. This XML tag has also a switch, select, by which it matches XML data. In the above example, it searches for the <summary><subhead> combination. Here is the top portion of the XML file:
//summary/subhead) is Periodical Sales Report. In a similar fashion, we find that //summary/heading is "MyDvd Rental Store", and that //summary/description is "Sales Report for January, February, and March of 2001". Here is the full XSLT file:
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