Subsequently, when MSXML was updated to support the final W3C XSLT 1. 0 Recommendation, Microsoft documentation referred to the obsolete dialect as " XSL " and to the new language as " XSLT ".

Since the mid-2000 release of MSXML 3. 0, MSXML has had complete support for both XSLT 1. 0 alongside the older dialect.

XSLT 1. 0 was published as a W3C recommendation on 16 November 1999.

As of 2010, however, XSLT 1. 0 is still widely used, as the native XSLT implementations running in browsers do not support XSLT 2. 0, and no XSLT 2. 0 implementation exists for some important server environments such as LAMP.

* Browsers: As of mid-2012, most browsers have support for XSLT 1. 0 built in.

For example, the Windows XP MSXML3 library includes an XSLT 1. 0 processor.

XSLT 1. 0 and XSLT 2. 0 were not designed to allow XML Streaming of the input to output.

XSLT 1. 0 uses XPath 1. 0.

The XSLT 2. 0 and XQuery 1. 0 standards were developed by separate working groups within W3C, working together to ensure a common approach where appropriate.

* Xalan – XSLT / XPath implementation, included in JDK 1. 4 and above as the default transformer ( XSLT 1. 0 ).

* Saxon, alternative highly specification compliant XSLT / XPath / XQuery processor ( supports both XSLT 1. 0 and 2. 0 )

Xalan is a popular open source software library from the Apache Software Foundation, originally created by IBM under the name LotusXSL, that implements the XSLT 1. 0 XML transformation language and the XPath 1. 0 language.

Functional programming is also supported in some domain-specific programming languages like R ( statistics ), Mathematica ( symbolic math ), J, K and Q from Kx Systems ( financial analysis ), XQuery / XSLT ( XML ) and Opal.

Future versions of HTML may support deeper transclusion of portions of documents using XML technologies such as entities, XPointer document referencing, and XSLT manipulations.

XSLT, for example, is a Turing complete XML dialect.

** DSSSL was reworked into W3C XSLT and XSL-FO which use an XML syntax.

** Declarative languages such as XSLT.

# the XML Path Language ( XPath ): a non-XML language used by XSLT, and also available for use in non-XSLT contexts, for addressing the parts of an XML document.

* Sometimes it refers to XSLT: this usage is best avoided.

XSLT and XPath became W3C Recommendations on 16 November 1999 and XSL-FO reached Recommendation status on 15 October 2001.

XSL Transformations ( XSLT ) has many implementations available.

Several web browsers, including Internet Explorer ( using the MSXML engine ), Opera ( native engine ) and Safari, all support transformation of XML to HTML ( or other languages ) through XSLT.

XML Path Language ( XPath ), itself part of the XSL family, functions within XSLT as a means of navigating an XML document.

XSLT ( Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations ) is a language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents, or other objects such as HTML for web pages, plain text or into XSL Formatting Objects which can then be converted to PDF, PostScript and PNG.

As a language, XSLT is influenced by functional languages, and by text-based pattern matching languages in the tradition of SNOBOL and awk.

Its most direct predecessor is DSSSL, a language that performed the same function for full SGML that XSLT performs for XML Some members of the standards committee that developed XSLT, including James Clark, had previously worked on DSSSL.

Unlike DSSSL, however, XSLT code uses the syntax of its target language, XML, which means that it can also be viewed as a Turing-complete template processor.

XSLT was part of the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C )' s Extensible Stylesheet Language ( XSL ) development effort of 1998 – 1999, a project that also produced XSL-FO and XPath.

The most recent version is XSLT 2. 0 ,, developed under the editorship of Michael Kay.

None supports XSLT 2. 0 natively, but the third party Saxon-CE product aims to fill this gap ..

The XSLT 2. 0 Recommendation ( January 2007 ) includes a formal application to register this media type.

As of 2009, there is no MIME / Internet media type registered for XSLT.

It is possible that a media type will be registered specifically for XSLT stylesheets ; if and when it is, that media type may also be used.

RFC 3023 points out potential technical problems with types in general, and proposes as an ideal media type for XSLT.

These data types can then be used in XPath 2. 0 and XSLT 2. 0 commands.

The XSLT language is declarative: rather than listing an imperative sequence of actions to perform in a stateful environment, template rules only define how to handle a node matching a particular XPath-like pattern, if the processor should happen to encounter one, and the contents of the templates effectively comprise functional expressions that directly represent their evaluated form: the result tree, which is the basis of the processor's output.

Pre-1. 0 working drafts of XSLT used in their embedding examples, and this type was implemented and continues to be promoted by Microsoft in Internet Explorer and MSXML.

DocBook 4. x documents are not compatible with DocBook 5, but they can be converted into DocBook 5 documents through the use of an XSLT stylesheet.

Other tools like awk can also be considered glue languages, as can any language implemented by an ActiveX WSH engine ( VBScript, JScript and VBA by default in Windows and third-party engines including implementations of Rexx, Perl, Tcl, Python, XSLT, Ruby, Delphi, & c ) A majority of applications can access and use operating system components via the object models or its own functions.

XSLT and XPath, for example, need to be able to access any node at any time in the parsed XML tree.

As with standalone software interfaces, this is facilitated by the underlying technology of the website — the use of XML and XSLT, for instance, facilitates major changes of layout, while CSS can be used to easily produce different visual styles.

) contains a pair of XSLT scripts ( usually referred to as the " subset tool ") that can be used to construct GML profiles.

In a typical implementation, the Schematron schema XML is processed into normal XSLT code for deployment anywhere that XSLT can be used.

Schematron's design of expressing constraints through an XPath-based language that can be deployed as XSLT code, make it practical for applications such as the following:

For example an Apache Ant task can be used to convert Schematron rules into XSLT files.

It can be converted into a HTML report using XSLT.

XForms is itself an XML dialect, and therefore can create and be created from other XML documents using XSLT.

Even tutorials on XSL-FO tend to be written with XSLT commands around the FO processing instructions.

These features are comparable to CSS's layout features, though some of those features are expected to be built by the XSLT.

Numbering of XSL-FO lists, when they are numbered, is expected to be done by the XSLT, or whatever other process, that generated the XSL-FO document.

However, for high-end publications and mass-market books, it usually is ; in some cases this can be met by using XSLT to generate a LaTeX document instead.

* Rhythmbox XSLT allows the music library to be viewed as a web page

The renaming from SA to EE was done to emphasize that the commercial product by now included many additional features beyond schema awareness, including a more advanced optimizer and the capability for streamed processing of XSLT and XQuery, enabling very large source documents to be processed without correspondingly large amounts of memory.