XML and Java™ from scratch

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In this chapter, we learned the basics of a markup language by examining HTML in the creation of a listing page for one of our sites' vendors. We then used Cascading Style Sheets to influence the presentation of that HTML. Finally, we converted our HTML page into XML, and used CSS to create a Web page without any HTML, separating content from presentation.

In the next chapter, “Product Pages: Transforming XML in the Browser,” we're going to take this concept of separation one step further, as we look at an even more powerful way of styling XML: Extensible Stylesheet Language, or XSL. Where Cascading Style Sheets allow us to change the way data looks, XSL will actually give us the opportunity to affect the data itself, changing the ...