XSL(T) is for transformation of XML data into another form: 1. Representational form - XHTML 2. Data form - XML 3. Textual form - Text.
When you transform XML to XML, you are in fact converting the data into a more manageable/convenient format for your purposes. In your case, if you need to manually import the data into the database, you could do it directly from the XML file. If you need to do it programmatically, you would need code because XSLT cannot insert the data into the database. On Jan 27, 9:40 pm, Learner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to understand more about XSL and XSLT while dealing > with XML files. If I consider a scenario of getting data in an XML > format from another system (java) and then I want to be to able > process those XML files and store the data (thousands of records) in > our database (ASP.NET and SQL server) . Do I have to use XSL and XSLT > in this process? If so can some one please help me understand where > and why do we need these XSL and XSLT. if we do not need to use these > two technologies just to process the XML files to store in in our > databse then where do we use these two technologies. Appreciate your > time. > > Thanks in advance, > > L
