Extensible Style Language (XSL)

• Domain: Publishing

• Proposed by Microsoft & Co

• Specifies how XML is to be presentedMaps XML files to HTML files

• Mapping specification written in XML itself (!)

• Rule-based mappingsExample: Map <title>s occurring in <div1>s to <H2>

• Future browsers will have XSL support built-inXML + XSL + HTML4 = Industrial strength publication

• Plugin for XSL available since January 1998 (MXSL)

Previous slide

Next slide

Back to first slide

View graphic version