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XSLT and RSS feeds.

Posted by James - 31/01/08 at 12:01:58 am

XSLT is XSL Transformations, and XSL is Xtensible Stylesheet Language. (So says w3schools)

XSLT is pretty impressive. With a single stylesheet you can completely reformat XML data into a HTML structure that suits your needs. Even better than that, you can also use quite complex commands to single out specific peices of data. This gets me thinking - RSS feeds are XML based - and RSS feeds are often formatted in the ugly default method of the browser. So why don’t people use XSLT to completely refactor their RSS feed data, not least to maintain a bit of branding consistancy. Continue reading XSLT and RSS feeds….