Tuesday 12 February 2008

XSL Summary

XSL = XML Style Sheets

XML does not use predefined tags (we can use any tag-names we like), and the meaning of these tags are not well understood.

A table element could mean an HTML table, a piece of furniture, or something else - and a browser does not know how to display it.

XSL describes how the XML document should be displayed!

XSL - More Than a Style Sheet Language

XSL consists of three parts:
  • XSLT - a language for transforming XML documents
  • XPath - a language for navigating in XML documents
  • XSL-FO - a language for formatting XML documents

Source: http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xsl_languages.asp

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