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What is the diff between XSL and DOM ?

 
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Hello Friends !!!
Can u please tell me what is the diff betn. XSL and DOM ?
and when to use XSL and When to Use DOM ?
Anyone tell me?
Thanx.
Tejas.
 
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XSL is a styling language and XSLT is a spec. XSL comprises of an instruction set that can be used to transform an XML document into another XML, a HTML or a text document. This transformation is done using an XSLT (eXtended Stylesheet Language Transformation ) processor. Put simply
XML + XSL -----(XSLT)-------> HTML/XML/text document.
XSL is more related to presentation or transformation of XML data.

DOM( Document Object Model ) on the otherhand is a W3C specification for parsing XML documents. DOM feeds on XML and represents the XML structure as a tree in memory. Once DOM has been fed, you can use the tree to manipulate data ("nodes") that it may contain.

Please read my otherpost that talks about another popular parsing method called SAX( stands for Simple API for XML parsing ).
Hope that helps!
Ajith
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