Export Transform and View is a standard way of extracting information from JEAN and viewing it using a standard web browser. The information in one or more JEAN nodes is written as an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) file. A transformation stylesheet written in XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) is used to convert the XML into HTML (HyperText Markup Language) which is the standard language for web pages, viewable in all browsers. Some modern browsers can perform this transformation on the fly, but to avoid compatibility problems JEAN does the transformation directly.
JEAN recognises the presence of an ETV operation by the presence of an XSL file in its database under the application-name/transformers key.. A menu entry is generated using the name of the XSL file as a label. When the menu item is selected the currently selected node or nodes is exported in XML, the transformation applied and the system browser called to view the result.