In its ongoing efforts to tinker with characteristics of the important Extensible Markup Language, the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) Tuesday said it has issued the Extensible Stylesheet
Language (XSL) 1.0 -- an XML-based language that spells how XML documents will be formatted -- as a recommendation.
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The specification builds on, and works together with XSL Transformations
(XSLT), an XML language that performs transformations of structured documents that passed muster in November 1999. The W3C's motives in hammering out XSLT and XSL 1.0
are to help render paginated Web media and professionally printed documents.
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Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is a family of languages and specifications designed for laying out and presenting Language, a standard recommended by
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W3C said XSL 1.0 is an extension of XSL Transformations, which although an effective spec, was not able to provide more advanced
format levels. XSL 1.0 corrects this by defining "formatting objects," such as footnotes, headers, columns, and other features
common to paged media.
How does this work? For example, a Web developer would use XSL 1.0 stylesheets to indicate rendering preferences for a type of XML
document, including how it is styled, laid out, and paginated onto a browser window, a pamphlet, or a book. An XSL engine would then
take the XML document and the XSL stylesheet, and would produce a rendering of the document.
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Anders Berglund (ed), W3C Proposed Recommendation. W3C is has announced the advancement of the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
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In short, XSLT 1.0 makes it possible to change the original structure of an XML document, while XSL 1.0 makes complex document
formatting possible through the use of formatting objects and properties. Together, XSL 1.0 and XSLT make it possible for the needs
of Web and print-based media formatting to be met. Essentially, one can have documents and data stored in XML, specify how to format
and render them, and produce versions for the Web and print.
W3C said the XSL 1.0 is compatible and interoperable with Cascading Style Sheet language (CSS) technology for styling.
A number of W3C member organizations have tested XSL 1.0, including representatives from Adobe Systems Inc., IBM
Corp. and Microsoft Corp.
As a premier graphics -and text-supportive software maker, Adobe was pleased with the recommendation:
"The formatting objects and styling properties in XSL 1.0 provide a significant foundation for bringing higher quality formatting,
pagination and control to the web, consistent with Adobe's page layout products -- Adobe FrameMaker, InDesign and PageMaker," said
Julie McEntee, Director of Server Products for Adobe. "In the world of network publishing in which customers need predictable
results when authoring and reusing content across print, web and wireless, standards such as XML, XSL and SVG are critical."
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