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<refentry id="VS-X-2">
  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>Using XSLT to Format Output</refentrytitle>
    <refmiscinfo>tutorial</refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>
  <refnamediv>
    <refname>Using XSLT to Format Output</refname>
    <refpurpose>Using XSLT to Format Output</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

<refsect1 id="VS-X-2a">
<title>XSLT Example</title>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
  <listitem>This example uses an XSLT to customize a view of a table.</listitem>
  <listitem>The XSL demonstrates xsl:output to create the output.</listitem>
  <listitem>The http_xslt() does not make the XSL-T transformation. It only registers the content as XML
  such that when the document is requested by the client, the server will transform it with XSL-T.</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="VS-X-2b">
<title>Example explained</title>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
  <listitem>string_output () - creates a string session.</listitem>
  <listitem>select ... for xml auto element - Is the SQL/XML query over target table(s).</listitem>
  <listitem>xml_auto() - This executes the above query, and stores the resultant XML document (entities) in the string session allocated by string_output().</listitem>
  <listitem>string_output_string() - converts the string session to 'normal' string.</listitem>
  <listitem>http_xslt()  - defines the XSL-T stylesheet for transformation of the XML content, which is stored in internal string session of the Web server.</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
