Although
it is possible to work with an xml and xsl file using a simple text
editor like Notepad, it is better to use an editor meant for the xml
and xsl files. There are many xml editors available in the market. One
of the best products in this category is XMLSpy.
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You
can try the home edition of XMLSpy that is available for free. Using
such tools gives you syntax coloring and code completion which helps
you a lot. Moreover the well-formedness of the xml document can also
be checked easily.
Creating
style sheet for your xml file using such tools is very easy as you have
lot of help while coding.Once you have created a stylesheet for your
xml file, you can include that xsl style sheet in your xml file so that
the data in the xml file is displayed according to the style sheet.
Otherwise
you can write the code in your program to load the xml file and the
xsl file in their respective objects and then do the transform programmatically.
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