In my last post, I talked a little about XSLT - how it can be used to mix data from an XML file with HTML markup, thus producing a web page presentation for that data. This is fundamentally how the Data View Web Part works. When the Data View executes...

...From the Open Internet Lexicon: "A Transformation Language to convert XML/XSL documents into HTML suitable for a browser to display." Personally, I like to think of it as language that sucks data from an XML file into an HTML file :). Here's...