Date: Sep. 4, 2001
Link: http://java.oreilly.com/news/javaxslt_0801.html
Source Author or Organization: Eric M. Burke, O'Reilly Java Center

Top Ten Java and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) Tips offers real world advice for developers using the two languages from Eric M. Burke, author of the O'Reilly & Associates book Java and XSLT.

The article describes several techniques that should become work habits, such as testing before deployment, caching to improve transformation performance, writing XML producer classes to handle Java object to XML conversion and using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) with XSLT to reduce stylesheet complexity.

In addition to sample code listings, links are provided for downloadable samples and sources of related information.