Dreamweaver

Workflow for performing client-side XSL transformations

You can perform client-side XSL transformations. Read about server-side and client-side XSL transformations and about using XML and XSL with web pages before building pages that display XML data.

The general workflow for performing client-side XSL transformations is as follows (each step is described in other topics):

1. Set up a Dreamweaver site.

2. Create an XSLT page or convert an HTML page to XSLT.

  • In your Dreamweaver site, create an entire XSLT page.

  • Convert an existing HTML page to an entire XSLT page.

3. Attach an XML data source to the page (if you haven’t already done so).

The XML file that you attach must reside in the same directory as the XSLT page.

4. Bind your XML data to the XSLT page.

5. Display XML data by binding the data to the entire XSLT page.

6. If appropriate, add a Repeating Region XSLT object to the table or table row that contains the XML data placeholder(s).

7. Attach the XSLT page to the XML page.

8. Post both the XML page and the linked XSLT page to your web server.

9. View the XML page in a browser.

When you do so, the browser transforms the XML data, formats it with the XSLT page, and displays the styled page in the browser.