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Using CSS with XSLT

If CSS (at least at Level 2) can’t do all that you want with your XML data, you need to explore alternative approaches to displaying that data for some uses. One productive possibility is to use CSS and XSLT together with a source XML data store.

Using XSLT and CSS with HTML Output

If you use both XSLT to create HTML output documents (Web pages) and CSS styling together with the HTML, all four ways of using CSS to style HTML documents are, in principle, available:

• Linking to an external CSS style sheet using the link element

• Using the @import directive

• Using the style element

• Styling individual HTML elements

One of the reasons for using CSS is that it makes it easier to update styles site-wide, so you most likely will want ...