XSL companion, The

Background

XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) is a markup language that is suitable for formatting material to screen and to paper. At the time of writing (early 2000), the XSL standard is still in draft form (http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-xsl-20000301) and there is little software support for it. However, the details have changed little in recent versions, so that the information given here should be very close to the final standard (which will be found at www.w3.org/TR/xsl). Despite this, there are still gaps and questions outstanding, and so this description should be considered as a guide to the general shape and scope of the language, rather than a definitive reference to it.

XSL is a powerful, and therefore complex, language, with 51 formatting ...