Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2015 - Manual (Page 519)

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Workflow for performing server-side XSL transformations
You can perform server-side XSL transformations on the server. Read about server-side and client-side XSL
transformations and about using XML and XSL with web pages before building pages that display XML data.
Note: Your server must be correctly configured to perform server-side transformations. For more information, contact your
server administrator.
The general workflow for performing server-side XSL transformations is as follows (each step is described in other
topics):
1.Set up a Dreamweaver site.
2.Choose a server technology and set up an application server.
3.Test the application server.
For example, create a page that requires processing, and make sure that the application server processes the page.
4.Create an XSLT fragment or page, or convert an HTML page to an XSLT page.
• In your Dreamweaver site, create an XSLT fragment or an entire XSLT page.
• Convert an existing HTML page to an entire XSLT page.
5.Attach an XML data source to the page.
6.Display XML data by binding the data to the XSLT fragment or to the entire XSLT page.
7.If appropriate, add a Repeating Region XSLT object to the table or table row that contains the XML data
placeholders.
8.Insert references.
• To insert a reference to the XSLT fragment in your dynamic page, use the XSL Transformation server behavior.
• To insert a reference to the entire XSLT page in the dynamic page, delete all of the HTML code from a dynamic page,
and then use the XSL Transformation server behavior.
9.Post the page and the fragment.
Post both the dynamic page and the XSLT fragment (or entire XSLT page) to your application server. If you are using
a local XML file, you will need to post that as well.
10.View the dynamic page in a browser.
When you do so, the application server transforms the XML data, inserts it in the dynamic page, and displays it in the
browser.
Create an XSLT page
You can create XSLT pages that let you display XML data on web pages. You can create either an entire XSLT page—an
XSLT page that contains a tag and a tag—or you can create an XSLT fragment. When you create an
XSLT fragment, you create an independent file that contains no body or head tag—a simple piece of code that is later
inserted in a dynamic page.
Note: If you are starting with an existing XSLT page, you need to attach an XML data source to it.
1 Select File > New.
2 In the Blank Page category of the New Document dialog box, select one of the following from the Page Type column:
• Select XSLT (Entire page) to create an entire XSLT page.