Combining
XML DTD with XSL to produce HTML
You
can combine XML, DTD, and XSL to produce html. As you know the DTD is
the document that defines how an XML should be created.
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The
validity of the XML is checked against a particular DTD. If you are
using XML editors then you can easily validate an XML document against
a particular DTD.
Tools
to validate are integrated within the XML editor. You can find such
XML editors by performing a search in a good search engine.
The XSL
file is used to format how the output of the transformation should look
like. With a good XML editor you can also work with an XSL file and
see the result of the transformation in a separate window.
By viewing
the resulting output can be make the changes necessary in the XSL file
and fine tune the formatting you need in the result. A simple way to
do the transformation is to include the XSL file itself using a special
tag in the XML file.
The 'xml-stylesheet'
tag is used to include the URL of the stylesheet. If you open the XML
file that has this tag in it, the resulting output in the browser window
will be formatted according to the formatting instructions given in
the XSL file.