Style sheets describe how documents are presented on screens, in print, or perhaps how they are pronounced. W3C has actively promoted the use of style sheets on the Web since the Consortium was founded in 1994. The Style Activity has produced several W3C Recommendations (CSS1, CSS2, XPath, XSLT). CSS especially is widely implemented in browsers.
By attaching style sheets to structured documents on the Web (e.g. HTML), authors and readers can influence the presentation of documents without sacrificing device-independence or adding new HTML
Back in 2005, author's Håkon Wium Lie and Michael Day were on a war path: "A recent entry in the blog of a web luminary may signal the start of a second round of hostilities. Norman Walsh, a member of the W3C's Technical Architecture Group and co-author of the W3C's Web Architecture document (WebArch), recently blogged:
... web browsers suck at printing. ... And CSS is never going to fix it. Did you hear me? CSS is never going to fix it.
It's unclear if this statement is a prediction or a threat. Or just blogging on a bad day. Anyway, the
XSLT allows you to create formatting structures which interpret and modify the existing XML elements. Learn about the syntax of XSLT elements, how the namespace attribute differs depending on the browser in use, and how to transform original XML elements.
XSL or eXtensible Stylesheet Language began life in much the same way as XML -- as a submission to the W3C. The W3C quickly released several working drafts before the final working draft was released in 2000. It shared some common design goals with XML, namely:
A quick design
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