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How XSL Works

Notes:

An XSL parser performs these steps:
1. Read the document as a DOM tree (more precisely, it is the XML parser that creates the DOM tree)
2. Apply XSLT transformations to produce a result tree.
3. Apply formatting objects (FO) to the result tree.
Step 2 can:
Include / exclude nodes based on XPath criteria.
Sort the nodes.
Insert text and other nodes.