Special Edition Using XML, Second Edition

Roadmap

Cascading Stylesheets were designed to work with HTML, but they were never intended for use with XML. Although CSS is a very nice tool for working with layout and design, there are still a number of features that would be nice for working with XML documents that CSS does not afford.

Because of those shortcomings, the W3C developed the Extensible Stylesheet Language, which is designed specifically for working with XML documents. In fact, XSL is divided into two parts, one of which is called XSL Transformations, or XSLT, which deals with stylesheets designed for transforming XML. With XSLT, you can convert your XML documents from one XML vocabulary to another, such as from XML to WML. You can also convert XML documents into HTML. After ...