Object-Oriented Thought Process, The, Second Edition

Using Cascading Style Sheets

From a technical perspective, the concept of portable data often focuses on the movement of data between two points. However, getting the data from point A to point B provides no real value unless the data is presented in an appropriate way. Thus we must consider how the data used in an XML system is presented to a user.

Remember that although XML is used to define data, HTML is basically a presentation mechanism. However, XML and HTML can be used together to present data in a browser.

Although XML is not generally used for presentation purposes, there are ways to format XML. One of these is to use cascading style sheets (CSS). CSS are used heavily in the HTML world to format content. We can also use CSS to format ...