XSLT (eXtensible Sylesheet Language Transformation) is used to transform XML into other formats, such as (x)HTML. In this series of articles you'll learn how to create umbraco macros with XSLT. This is the first article in that series.

Before diving in and starting to write an XSLT macro, let's take a moment to understand the anatomy of an umbraco XSLT file. Understanding each of the lines in that make up the structure or "anatomy" of an XSLT file will give you confidence and guidance as you develop your XSLT skills.

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Most of the modifications people want to make to XSLTsearch have to do with limiting or filtering the nodes being searched.

As an example, suppose you have a blog and want to exclude blog comments from the search results. This is easily done with a one-line addition to the xsltsearch.xslt macro file.

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