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A tiny example

The following XSLT stylesheet transforms XML business cards into XHTML: 

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"
                xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <xsl:template match="card">
    <html>
      <head>
        <title><xsl:value-of select="name/text()"/></title>
      </head>
      <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
        <table border="3">
          <tr>
            <td>
              <xsl:apply-templates select="name"/><br/>
              <xsl:apply-templates select="title"/><p/>
              <tt><xsl:apply-templates select="email"/></tt><br/> 
              <xsl:if test="phone">
                Phone: <xsl:apply-templates select="phone"/><br/>
              </xsl:if>
            </td>
            <td>
              <xsl:if test="logo">
                <img src="{logo/@url}"/>
              </xsl:if>
            </td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </body>
    </html>
  </xsl:template> 

  <xsl:template match="name">
    <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="title">
    <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="email">
    <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="phone">
    <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The transformation applied to the business card: 

<card>
  <name>John Doe</name>
  <title>CEO, Widget Inc.</title>
  <email>john.doe@widget.com</email>
  <phone>(202) 555-1414</phone>
  <logo url="widget.gif"/>
</card>

looks like:

John Doe
CEO, Widget Inc.

john.doe@widget.com   
Phone: (202) 555-1414

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