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The XSL Namespace

The XML system provides a predefined namespace with the name xsl. It's a description of how the XML processor is to process the tags and display the data. This description can and most often does contain the references of the data to include. It's referenced by using this qualifier:

          xmlns:xsl="uri:xsl"

Keep in mind that the rules of the xsl namespace are an extension of CSS and are used to specify the data and its appearance.

For example, suppose that you have the following generic <SPAN> tag:

<SPAN AppearanceQualifiers>
Data to be inserted here
</SPAN>

You can insert the appearance qualifiers explicitly, as in the following:

<SPAN STYLE="font-size:20pt;text-transform:uppercase">
This is another test
</SPAN>

Or you can ...