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Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT): The Complete Documentation

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Automated Tree Drawing: XSLT and SVG

Published on 2004-09-08, by Jirka Kosek, ©O'Reilly Media, Inc..

Trees are a very basic abstraction used in many computer science areas, including XML. If you're writing a document about tree structures you'll often want to show trees as graphics. This is not a problem for a few trees as they can be hand drawn in some graphics editor. But if you need dozens of trees, you would do well to use a compact text syntax for describing trees that can later be turned into nice pictures. In this article I'll show you how to parse simple text notation by means of XSLT and turn it into SVG graphics.