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The riddle

RDDL was created, according to its authors, in response to the following question (or riddle, hence the name) :

Some namespace names are URL. What should I get when I type this URL into my browser ?

As this doesn’t care about namespace names that are not URL, let’s rewrite it this way :

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Introduction

XSLT can be used to transform XML data in various ways. An application often seen is to use XSLT to transform XML data for presentation, building HTML / XHTML / WML / whatever documents. This allows for a clean separation between domain-specific data documents following a dedicated schema, and a presentation-dedicated markup language. This way, data documents can be produced and used by other tools that don’t need to care about presentation issues.