Appendix D. XSL Reference

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The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) was created for the presentation and formatting of XML documents for visual display. XSL is broken into three parts. The first, XSL Transformations (XSLT), is a set of XML elements used for transforming XML documents. The next part is XPath, which is an expression language used to access or refer to parts of an XML document; XPath is used in the XSL stylesheets to choose XML document parts to process or transform. The third part is XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects). This is an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics, and is not covered here.

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