ALSO CALLED: Extensible Stylesheet Transformations, Extensible Style Sheet Transformations, and XSL Transformations
DEFINITION: XSL Transformations (XSLT) is a standard way to describe how to transform (change) the structure of an XML (Extensible Markup Language) document into an XML document with a different structure. XSLT is a Recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

XSLT can be thought of as an extension of the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL). XSL is a language  … 
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XSLT DEFINITION (continued): …  for formatting an XML document (for example, showing how the data described in the XML document should be presented in a Web page). XSLT shows how the XML document should be reorganized into another data structure (which could then be presented by following an XSL style sheet).

XSLT is used to describe how to transform the source tree or data structure of an XML document into the result tree for a new XML document, which can be completely different in structure. The coding for the XSLT is also referred to as a style sheet and can be combined with an XSL style sheet … 
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