XSL language
It starts with XSL, ended in XSLT, XPath and XSL-FO.
Starting in XSL
XSL means Extensible Stylesheet Language(E X tensible S tylesheet L anguage).
Cause World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) started to develop XSL is: there is an XML-based Stylesheet Language demand.
CSS = HTML Style Sheets
HTML uses predefined tags, the meaning of each tagcan easily be understood.
HTML in the <table> tag defines a table - and a browserknows how to display it.
Adding styles to HTML elements is easy. Through CSS, it is easy to inform the browser to use a specific font or color of a display element.
XSL = XML stylesheet
XML does not use predefined tags (we can use any favorite tag name), and the meaning of each tag isnot all that easy to understand.
<table> tag means that an HTML table, a piece of furniture, or whatever -is not clear how the browser to display it.
XSL to describe how to display XML documents!
XSL - just Stylesheet Language
XSL consists of three parts:
- XSLT - a language for transforming XML documents.
- XPath - An XML document in the navigation language.
- XSL-FO - a language for formatting XML documents.
The main content of this tutorial is XSLT
The rest of this tutorial is XSLT - a language for transforming XML documents.
To learn more about the knowledge of XSL-FO and XPath, please visit our XPath tutorial and XSL-FO tutorial .