The Object-Oriented Thought Process, Fourth Edition

Using Cascading Style Sheets

From a technical perspective, the concept of portable data often focuses on the movement of data between two points. However, getting the data from point A to point B provides no real value unless the data is presented in an appropriate way. Thus, we must consider how the data transported in an XML system is presented to a user.

Remember that although XML is primarily used to define data, HTML is basically a presentation mechanism. However, XML and HTML can be used in tandem to present data via a browser.

Although XML is not generally used for presentation purposes, there are ways to format XML. One of these is to use CSS. CSS are used heavily in the HTML world to format content. To a certain degree, CSS can be used ...