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Finding the fit for XSLT: filling a hole in the puzzle.

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Although a number of standards exist for information interchange and process definition, industry standards have yet to emerge for defining common integration server and B2B integration server services such as routing, rules processing, and transformation. In the absence of such standards, individual vendors have created proprietary approaches to these basic information-processing services. As a result, we are confronted with features that are not interchangeable, require specialized training, and do not provide a common framework of services.

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Even as we begin to implement standards such as XML as mechanisms to manage in formation interchange, we are also looking to create standards that support information processing within the middleware. These standards will define services common to most integration servers and to B2B integration servers, including rules and transformation.

XSLT seeks to fill the need for a standard approach to both rules and transformation processing. Like XML, XSLT could become the preferred standard mechanism for transforming content and application semantics as information moves from application to application and business to business.

The power of XSLT resides in its...