XML Processing - Java 8 Recipes - page 816

<xsl:value-of select="@id"/>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="name"/>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="diagnosis"/>
</td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Using this stylesheet, the sample code transforms the XML into an HTML table
containing all the patients and their data. Rendered in a browser, the HTML table
should look like the one in Figure 20-1 .

Figure 20-1 . A common rendering of an HTML table

The process for using this XSL file to convert the XML to an HTML file is
straightforward, but every step can be enhanced with additional error checking and pro-
cessing. For this example, refer to the previous code in the solution section.
The most basic transformation steps are these:

1. Read the XSL document into your Java application as a Source ob-

ject.

2. Create a Transformer instance and provide your XSL Source

instance for it to use during its operation.