Preface

This book covers a family of standards developed by W 3C (the World Wide Web Consortium). These standards emerged out of a proposal for a stylesheet language, submitted in 1997, which was to be called 'XSL' (eXtensible Stylesheet Language). However, during its gestation, this proposal was eventually pulled apart into three separate standards. The first of these, XPath , defines a mechanism for locating information in XML documents, and it has many other uses beyond its role in formatting documents. The second, XSLT , provides a means for transforming XML documents into other data formats, including (but not limited to) formatting languages. Finally, the term 'XSL' is now properly used only to name a proposed standard for embedding formatting ...

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