Java and Database Connectivity: Slide 95

Moving to XML

Beginning XSL-T (ii) The 'stylesheet' tag

<?xml version="1.0"?>

This says this stylesheet is written in XML; it should be the first line of every XML document
Yes, XSL is a dialect of XML
version=1.0 says it's version 1.0 of XML

<xsl:stylesheet version=1.0 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

Every XSL-T 'stylesheet' starts with this
xsl:stylesheet says it's a stylesheet
version=1.0 says it's version 1.0 of XSL
xmlns says the namesspace definition of names which start with 'xsl:' is identified by the URL http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform