Apply XSLT to an XML file

Question

I realise that I will probably regret asking about this for the rest of my life, but... Is there some way of applying XSLT to an XML file without the XML file havin

Answer 1

Why of course! :)

You simply need to invoke your desired XSLT processor supplying (at a minimum) the XSLT and the XML file to use. In fact internally this is what applications like Internet Explorer do explicitly when they detect that an XML document has referenced an XSLT file.

How you do this will depend on your environment, for example there are command line XSLT processors and you can also apply an XSLT in most programming languages, e.g. Applying an XSLT using C#.