One of the things XSLT makes really easy is "conditional formatting", i.e. having parts of your view appear differently depending on some data condition. Quick example: let's say you have a view of a "Product Sales" list, and you want to show a flag...

We built the Data View on XSLT for a couple of important reasons: 1) We wanted there to be a "real" programming language under the covers, so that our users would never be limited by what our UI allowed, i.e. even if FrontPage can't do something, you...