Modular XSLT, part 2: Simple export

As you know you can export or request data from FileMaker in XML and then transform the XML using a XSLT stylesheet into some other format. The question is: how do you approach writing such a stylesheet? Are there some universal techniques? Can you save some effort?

Here's a general tutorial, covering a basic export to simple XML format. As you'll see it isn't just a look-ma-it's-XML sample, but more like a foundation for any many well, at least some XSL-transformation problems.

The tutorial assumes you know XSLT basics and maybe have even tried to export something from FileMaker using the built-in XSLT processor. For example, you must understand what <xsl:temlplate> or <xsl:param> are for. If you don't know XLST, you might want to start from some XSLT Tutorial, like this quick one by W3Schools or that more detailed one by Zvon; this is where I started.

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