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libxslt-1.0.33

Introduction to libxslt

The libxslt package contains XSLT libraries. These are useful for extending libxml2 libraries to support XSLT files.

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Install libxslt by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

The libxslt package contains libxslt libraries, libexslt libraries and xsltproc.

libxslt libraries provide extensions to the libxml2 libraries to parse files that use the XSLT format.

xsltproc is used to apply XSLT stylesheets to XML documents.