Chapter 9. Formatting XML with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

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CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a style sheet language that supports the formatting of HTML/XML documents for viewing on the Web. CSS was originally created as a means of separating content from presentation in HTML documents. Because XML is a purely content-based metalanguage, CSS has proven to be quite useful in formatting XML documents. CSS is very easy to learn and use, and it provides a quick and straightforward way to style XML content for browsing. The relative simplicity of CSS also happens to be its weakness, because you have limited control over the formatting of XML documents. ...

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