Under the hood of XSLT: Doesn't apply to you? Automation engineers should think again

摘要

Outside the world of industrial automation, extensible Markup Language (XML) is fast becoming the world's most popular means of data interchange. A significant contributor to the success of XML has been extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) because of its simplicity and ability to transform XML data from one structure to another. The popularity of XML is driving automation system vendors to add XML as an optional format for control code import/export functionality.