Chapter 11. Getting Started with XSL

 

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

 
 --Stephen Hawking (on his book A Brief History of Time)

Unlike Mr. Hawking, I’m not afraid of a little extra complexity hurting the sales of this book. In fact, it’s necessary because XSL is a more complex style sheet technology than CSS, so there is no way to thoroughly cover style sheets without things getting a little messy. Fortunately, as you learn in this hour, XSL is a technology that has considerably more to offer than CSS. XSL is designed to do a whole lot more than just format XML content for display purposes; it gives you the ability to completely transform XML documents. You learn in this hour how to transform XML ...

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