Cascading Stylesheets
Cascading stylesheets (CSS) are not exactly a full blown publishing framework. Instead, they are used in conjunction with XML documents to associate stylistic behavior with elements of the document. Instead of hard-coding a font element in an HTML or XHTML document, you can instead reference a stylesheet component via a style attribute that contains the font information. The following XML fragment demonstrates how you can point your XML document to a CSS:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="wml.css">
So, if this is all you can do with stylesheets, why am I even discussing them here? The answer is that stylesheets are an essential component in supporting even more loose coupling of content and presentation. ...
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