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W3C makes recommendation on XML formatting
By Scarlet Pruitt (IDG) -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) put forth a recommendation Tuesday for the use of XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) to format XML documents. XML gives users a flexible way to create information formats and share both the formats and the data on the Web. While XML "held great promise" for document-driven industries, "It has also presented some limitations," the Consortium said in a release. By using XSL 1.0 to format XML documents, users can create more highly structured documents for publishing, the Consortium said.
The group recommended a language called XSLT 1.0 to perform transformations on XML data and documents in 1999, but it said Tuesday that XSL 1.0 builds on its former recommendation to provide users the ability to describe how XML data and documents are to be formatted, by defining "formatting objects" such as footnotes and headers. XSL 1.0 stylesheets can be used by designers to indicate how they want an XML document to be rendered, dictating how the document is styled, laid out and paginated. In addition, XSL 1.0 enriches XML documents and data with professional printing capabilities, the group said. The recommended format also complements CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), the language of choice for HTML and XHTML (eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language) documents, the group added. HTML is a set of codes that a programmer puts in a document to display it on the Web. XHTML reformulates HTML 4.0 as an application of XML. The W3C has worked with the CSS working group to ensure compatibility between the formats. The W3C is an international industry consortium created to develop protocols that promote the evolution and interoperability of the Web. Scarlet Pruitt is a Boston correspondent for the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate. |
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