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<s1 title="The Apache Xalan Project">
         
<s2 title="Xalan">
<p>Xalan has moved out of the XML project and is now a project in its own right. 
You will find links to all the Xalan subprojects as well as our new charter on the menu 
at the left of the screen. </p>
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<s2 title="What is Xalan?">
<p>
As our charter will tell you, the Apache Xalan Project is a collaborative software development 
project dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and 
freely available XSLT support on a wide variety of platforms.</p>
<p>There are currently two subprojects under the Apache Xalan Project:  
<jump href="http://xml.apache.org/xalan-c/">Xalan C++</jump>, and 
<jump href="http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/">Xalan Java</jump>, representing
C++ and Java implementations of the <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt">W3C XSL Transformations (XSLT) 
Version 1.0</jump> and the <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0</jump> 
recommendations.</p> 
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<s2 title="What is XSLT and XPath?">
<p>XSLT is the first part of the <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/">Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)</jump>. 
It includes the XSL Transformation (XSLT) vocabulary and XPath, a language for addressing parts of XML documents. 
XSL also includes a vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics, however, 
this is not part of the Apache Xalan Project.  For more information on formatting objects, see the 
<jump href="http://xml.apache.org/fop/">Apache XML FOP (Formatting Objects Project)</jump>.
 </p>
<p>XSLT implementations, sometimes referred to as XSLT processors, use an XSL stylesheet to transform
XML documents into HTML, text, or other XML document types.   In structural terms, an XSL stylesheet 
specifies the transformation of one tree of nodes (the XML input) into another tree of nodes (the output or 
transformation result).</p>
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<s2 title="License information">
<p>Xalan C++ and Xalan Java are made available under the <jump href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">
Apache Software License, Version 2.0.</jump></p>
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