HTML Selections from an XML Doc

I am new to building web applications. I am trying to populate
a dropdown list from information contained in tags in an xml document. For
now I have the items coded in the html doc. But I would like for it to be dynamic

for instance the xml doc named products.xml contains
<Products>
<product>Candy</product>
<product>Cake</product>
<product>Gum</product>
</Products>

and in the html document I have
<td nowrap><b>Products(s)</b></td>

<td nowrap>

<SELECT name="products" multiple size=3>
<OPTION value="Candy> Candy </OPTION>
<OPTION value="Cake"> Cake </OPTION>
<OPTION value="Gum"> Gum </OPTION>
</SELECT>
</td>

</tr>

I'm guessing that it's probably a job for XSL, you can find out more about that at http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/