XML Unleashed

Creating CSS Style Sheets

Before you create a CSS style sheet consisting of style rules, you must decide how you want to associate the style sheet with XML documents. There are two main methods available for associating CSS style sheets with documents:

• External style sheets

• Document-level style sheets

Although XML supports both of these approaches to referencing style sheets, I am in favor of the first approach because it provides the cleanest separation between the content of a document and its presentation. It also facilitates the usage of a single style sheet with multiple documents, which is one of the main benefits of using style sheets in the first place. Document-level style sheets aren't all wrong—they can save you time when you're developing ...