A Little Background

XSL itself is a creation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C, www.w3.org), a coalition of groups originally founded by Tim Berners-Lee. The W3C is the body that releases the specifications, such as those for XSL, that are used in this book. They make XML and XSL what they are.

W3C and Style Languages

You can read about the history of W3C’s work with style languages at www.w3.org/Style/History. It’s interesting to see how much work has gone on—and how much style languages have changed over the years.

The W3C originally developed the grandfather of XML, SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language), in the 1980s, but it was too complex to find much use, and in fact, XML (like HTML) is a simplified version of SGML. The W3C ...

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