XSLT in Agile web development

Andrew Mayorov

Andrew Mayorov

Agile requires accordingly agile software architecture and programming tools. For web development popular agile architecture is MVC (Model-View-Controller). For transferring data between controller and view XML is very suitable. And to transform it into final form it’s better to use XSLT.

XSLT is not very popular among developers, because they think this is just yet another “strange” language, without any real advantage comparing to usual languages. But advantages are real – XSLT allows for very interesting results, not possible with other templating languages. It definitely worth studying and this is not hard.