Extensible Stylesheet Language
In the HTML world, a CSS file is a style sheet that describes how browsers should interpret the HTML file in a standard manner. It is in this file that you describe the display properties of different HTML tags; for example, a table. This provides a level of separation between the formats of the HTML document and its contents. However, by definition, HTML does not provide the kind of separation that XML does. So, how do we specify the display formats for an XML file? We use Extensible Stylesheet Language, or XSL. XSL is a W3C standard and you can learn more about it by visiting the Web site at http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL.
XSL consists of the following components:
XSLT— A language to transform the XML to its desired ...
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