XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language used to transform XML documents into other formats like HTML, XML, JSON, or plain text. It is part of the XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) family, designed for formatting and converting XML data.

Key Characteristics:

  • Transforms XML data into a desired format.
  • Uses XPath to navigate and select XML elements.
  • Applies templates to process specific elements.
  • Works declaratively: transformation rules are defined instead of imperatively coded.