Special Edition Using XML, Second Edition

Introduction to XSL

The idea of stylesheets is not a new concept; and, in fact, stylesheets have been around for a long time, both in the structured markup world and in the world of computing applications in general.

In many computing applications, data is not separated from display information. For example, in word processing documents, the text of the document is integrated with information about the typeface, font size, and special formatting information such as tabs, justification, and so on. The same is true for documents on the World Wide Web. HTML documents contain both the information that is to be displayed and the markup that details how the information is to be displayed.

However, there are many benefits of separation of data and display ...