
6
XSL Formatting Objects and Cascading
Style Sheet
The previous chapter was a first look at styling XML documents. You
learned how to use XSLT to convert XML documents to HTML and other
formats.
This chapter picks up from there. It discusses Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)
and XSLFO (XSL Formatting Objects). Conceptually, CSS and XSLFO are
similar, but so far XSLFO has achieved limited market acceptance so I will
concentrate on CSS and look only at how XSLFO differs.
Specifically, in this chapter, you will learn
• how to display XML without converting it to HTML
• how to customize XML editor for author comfort