XSLT to generate SVG tutorial

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Introduction

This tutorial will teach you how to generate SVG graphics from XML data. We will produce both pure SVG and HTML5 embedded SVG.

Learning goals

  • Understand the purpose of XSLT, i.e. be able to think of XSLT as a translation language.
  • Do simple transformations from XML to HTML
  • Be able to use simple XPath expressions (tag and attribute names) in template selectors and for element and attribute extraction.
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