With all of the acronyms floating around in the computing world these days, another one can just add to the confusion of it all. Fortunately, there are resources out there to help - and Zend aims to help you out with one of the latest and (in my opinion) most useful XML-oriented advances lately - XSL.

In this new tutorial, the folks over at Zend share the world of transforming XML data with you. They start off with a quick overview of XSL and what it's about, then quickly move into the sample code, showing you how to take some sample XML data and, using an XSL stylesheet, transform it into a DocBook-formatted file.

What I really like about this example versus some others that I've seen so far, is that they actually use the PHP functionality to combine the XML and XSL. They show you how to use the information as files, but it could just as easily be swapped for "built on the fly" XML and combined...