XSL companion, The

The XSL standards

The title of this book refers to the acronym XSL, which stands for eXtensible Stylesheet Language. In the early stages of the development of this stylesheet language, this name was chosen to describe the specification. Since that time, things have become a little more complicated, and the final specification is actually an amalgamation of three standards: XSL, XSLT and XPath. The respective roles of these three standards can be explained in isolation. It is then possible to show how they work together to perform the task of formatting XML documents.

XSL

The original term 'XSL' is now used in a more limited way, to describe a way to specify output styles. The XSL standard defines an application of XML that deliberately breaks ...