http://www.myxmlproject.com/projects/autogallery/autogallery.php5?category=../imagesphotos

This webpage takes portrait and landscape format photos from a folder on the server and reformats them into a 40×40 thumbnails.  I created an XML file photos.xml – When xslt styling is applied to photos.xml the images are displayed in a Photo Gallery.

Previous attempts to display thumbnails in HTML were distorted.  I found an article on www.phpit.net that described how to improve the look of these images:
http://www.phpit.net/article/image-manipulation-php-gd-part2/