Chapter 8. Debating Style: eXtensible Style Language (XSL) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

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XML is used to mark up document content, and ideally it has no bearing on how the content is rendered for display within a Web browser or another application. In order to display XML documents, you must somehow specify display information such as font sizes and colors associated with different elements and attributes. The general mechanism for applying formatting styles to XML documents is known as a style sheet. I say "general" because currently there are two different approaches to styling XML documents with style sheets: CSS (Cascading Style ...

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