Moving to XML

Visual Appearance and Stylesheets [iv]: XSL Summary

• Transformation language of unquestionable merit, greatly aids separating content from presentation.
• Designed primarily to transform XML to XSL-FO, but can transform to any other XML dialect (including XHTML).
• Recommendation:
  • use XSL-T to map XML into XHTML for presentation to users, decorate with CSS
  • use XSL-T to map XML to other XML dialects as needed for communication with other organisations
  • ignore XSL-FO for now, except if
    1. You need pixel-perfect presentation of your documents and
    2. You work in an environment (e.g. an Intranet) where you control the client.

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