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Transform XML into HTML using XSLTTag(s): XML


[howto.xml] 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<howto>
  <topic>
      <title>Java</title>
      <url>http://www.rgagnon/javahowto.htm</url>
  </topic>
    <topic>
      <title>PowerBuilder</title>
      <url>http://www.rgagnon/pbhowto.htm</url>
  </topic>
      <topic>
        <title>Javascript</title>
        <url>http://www.rgagnon/jshowto.htm</url>
  </topic>
      <topic>
        <title>VBScript</title>
        <url>http://www.rgagnon/vbshowto.htm</url>
  </topic>
</howto>
[howto.xsl] 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head><title>Real's HowTo</title></head>
<body>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Title</th>
<th>URL</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="howto/topic">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="url"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body></html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
[HowToXSLT.java] 
// jdk1.4.1
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

public class HowToXSLT {
public static void main(String[] args) {
  try {

    TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();

    Transformer transformer =
      tFactory.newTransformer
         (new javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource
            ("howto.xsl"));

    transformer.transform
      (new javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource
            ("howto.xml"),
       new javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult
            ( new FileOutputStream("howto.html")));
    }
  catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace( );
    }
  }
}
See the result here.