Stylesheets
For the most part this book focuses on XML documents used as input to and output from various kinds of applications. In many cases it's entirely possible that the XML documents will be both written and read by software and that no human being will ever even look at the documents. However, on occasion people do need to load XML documents into a browser or print them on paper so they can read them. For this purpose XML documents are rather coarse, especially for non-programmers. To pretty them up, you can attach a stylesheet to the document that specifies how each element should be presented. There are two main languages used for this purpose today: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL).
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