XML Transforms: XSLT (1)

• This XSLT example shows how to transform an usual (not MS .NET) SOAP Web service contract declaration express in WSDL to render is as CSS-formatted XHTML as a way to document it automatically
• The transform starts by declaring the encoding, the DTD (DOCTYPE), and importing the HTML Latin-1 named entities:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
  <!DOCTYPE 
    xsl:stylesheet [
    <!ENTITY % lat1 SYSTEM "xhtml-lat1.ent" >
    %lat1;
    ]>

• It then declares the stylesheet root node, and imports all required namespaces, namely: WSDL, XML Schema, and SOAP:

  <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:wsdl = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" 
    xmlns:xsd  = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:soap = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
    version="1.0">

• And last before code really starts, is specifies the output format as raw XML, to work around an encoding-related subtlety in MSXML when generating HTML outputs:

    <xsl:output method="xml" />