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XSL Last modified: Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Short for Extensible Style Language, a specification for separating style from content when creating HTML or XML pages. The specifications work much like templates, allowing designers to apply single style documents to multiple pages. XSL is the second style specification to be offered by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C )(www.w3c.org). The first, called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), is similar to XSL but does not include two major XSL's innovations -- allowing developers to dictate the way Web pages are printed, and specifications allowing one to transfer XML documents across different applications. W3C released the first draft of XSL in August 1998, and promotes the specifications as helpful to the Web's speed, accessibility, and maintenance.

eXtensible Style Language (XSL)  W3C's page detailing XSL news, resources, guides, tools, and specifications. XSL Resources  Contains links to introductions and overviews, recent specifications, information about the W3C XSL Working Group, articles and papers, software support, style sheets, background information, discussion lists, conferences, and other related sites. A Proposal for XSL A proposal for XSL (Extensible Style Language) that is the deliverable for Phase III of the SGML, XML, and Structured Document Interchange Activity of the W3C. Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) First working draft for XSL from the W3C. Using XSL and CSS Together Discusses how XSL can be used as a bridge between complex XML-based documents and the CSS formatting model. WDVL XSL Page WDVL's XSL page contains articles and resource for all areas of XSL. Even provides a link to the W3C's XSL Working Draft page.