Shortening XSLT Stylesheets
XSLT is often considered to be too verbose. As stylesheet code grows, it tends to be unreadable. This is not a fate stylesheet authors have to accept. There are some strategies to keep your XSLT code short. This article proposes some ways of shorten stylesheets without loss of functionality, and throws a glance at XSLT 2.0 user defined functions."
