Use html to format xml document : html output « XSLT stylesheet « XML Tutorial

File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="Transform.xslt" type="text/xsl" ?>
<poem>
  <title>"title 1" excerpt</title>
  <verse>
    A
    <prop>B</prop>
    C
  </verse>
  <verse>line 1</verse>
  <verse>line 2</verse>
  <verse>line 3</verse>
  <verse>line 4</verse>
</poem>


File: Transform.xslt

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
     version="1.0">
  <xsl:output method="html"/>

  <xsl:template match="poem">
   <html><body>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
   </body></html>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="title">
   <h1><xsl:apply-templates/></h1>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="verse">
   <paragraph><xsl:apply-templates/></p>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="prop">
   <i><xsl:apply-templates/></i>
  </xsl:template>


</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

<html>
   <body>
        
      <h1>"title 1" excerpt</h1>
        
      <paragraph>
             A
             <i>B</i>
             C
           
      </paragraph>
        
      <paragraph>line 1</paragraph>
        
      <paragraph>line 2</paragraph>
        
      <paragraph>line 3</paragraph>
        
      <paragraph>line 4</paragraph>
      
   </body>
</html>

5.3.html output
	5.3.1.	Use tag to format xml element
	5.3.2.	Use different font style to format element
	5.3.3.	Output to a list
	5.3.4.	Just output html tags
	5.3.5.	Output entity
	5.3.6.	Output one type of HTML tags per template
	5.3.7.	Use html to format xml document
	5.3.8.	Format xml with html
	5.3.9.	Format html output with CSS