XSLT for Dummies

In This Chapter

• Working with whitespace

• Creating more readable documents through indenting

• Adding XML comments to your result document

• Creating processing instructions

Because the whole purpose of XSLT is to generate new documents from other documents, the transformation language ought to have considerable flexibility in determining what the resulting document structure looks like. After all, if not, why use it? Fortunately, XSLT does have several ways to tweak the result of your transformation. In Chapter 9, I explain how you can sort and number the content. In this chapter, I discuss some of the more advanced issues concerning XSLT output.