Batch composition to HTML
When using an XML-sensitive browser to display an XML document, it is only necessary to create a suitable CSS stylesheet, and reference it from the document. But when using an HTML-sensitive browser to display an XML document, a software 'filter' is used to transform the document into HTML format.
When using a filter program (or XSLT stylesheet), HTML in-line styles become a practical, and sometimes preferred, option. A filter program does not object to repeatedly generating the same style rule, it simply adds the Style attribute directly to each element:
<p style="font-size: 9pt ; color: blue">...</p> <p style="font-size: ...
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