July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
864 pages
22h 32m
English
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XSL As a Display Technology
The genesis of XSL is to provide a way for XML to be displayed properly in a variety of formats. Because XML files are simply text, they do not have the potential for the same range of dynamic display that is possible with HTML.
However, XSL enables XML authors to design stylesheets that are designed to work with XML, and to specify how the elements and attributes within their XML documents are to be displayed in the browser or on the printed page.
Producing PDFs
Although there are many ways to produce printed documents, from word processing applications to layout applications, one technology that has become popular in the past few years that can also be used on the Web is the Portable Document Format (PDF), which ...