Chapter 18. HTML 4.0
Although the primary impetus behind the development of XSLT has been to provide a mechanism for creating XSL documents, the reality is that most browsers in use today only understand HTML (along with CSS). Fortunately, XSLT is equally adept at converting XML documents into HTML documents (perhaps containing in-line CSS styles). This chapter explains HTML in sufficient detail to enable the formatting of XML documents for presentation in these browsers. HTML tags not used to format content are not discussed here. The most notable omission is elements used to build interactive forms.
The mechanism for producing HTML documents using an XSLT stylesheet is described in Chapter 5.
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