Though you do not have to be familiar with XPath to use the XSLT Mapper, you may benefit from some knowledge of XPath when building advanced expressions in XSLT. On the Web, you will find numerous publications dedicated to XSLT and related topics. Most books on XSLT contain sections on XPath. For a complete description of XPath and how to use it, read the W3C XML Path Language specification. This document is available at http://www.w3.org.
While XPath and XSLT are defined as separate specifications by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), XPath
There was a question on Mark Birbeck's mind. Should Xpath feature CSS? "But while some sort of convergence of XPath and CSS selectors may seem an obvious thought to many, the CSS 'language' continues to resist being brought up to date, and instead exists in a strange, murky world, of 'quirkarounds' and 'standards-proprietary' syntax. (As people require the ability to address other parts of the source tree, new selection mechanisms have to be added, but in a way that doesn't affect existing rules -- resulting in 'quirky workarounds', and syntax that is
Nobody's perfect, but when you're a web developer it sometimes seems that the whole world expects you to be. "DOCTYPE confusion.Completely missing, incorrect, or in the wrong place. I have seen HTML 4.0 Transitional used in documents containing XHTML markup as well as in documents, DOCTYPE declarations appearing after the opening tag, and incomplete DOCTYPES.
Why? Two reasons. First, it’s required, as stated in the W3C HTML 4.01 spec as well as in the W3C XHTML 1.0 spec. Second, modern web browsers use the specified DOCTYPE to decide which
"There are three ways to connect a CSS style sheet with HTML: You can use an internal style sheet, you can use an external style sheet, or you can use the HTML STYLE attribute to associate a CSS style with a particular HTML element. You don't have the luxury of these options in XML, at least not with the current crop of browsers. At this point, there's really only one way of connecting a style sheet to an XML document: by using the <?xml-stylesheet?> processing instruction.
Actually, <?xml-stylesheet?> isn't built in to the XML
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