The World Wide Web Consortium at the end of June posted its recommendation for eXtensible Style Language or XSL, the equivalent in style for eXtensible Markup Language pages that the consortium's Cascading Style Sheets made possible for HyperText Markup Language pages. With XSL, that data can now be presented with style as well as definition. For example, in a discussion of many books, the author's name might always appear in red as well as in a given text size.
Style sheets are huge.
Style sheets allow page designers to separate the presentation of the data on an XML page from the data itself. While a young researcher might want as much data as possible per downloaded page, an older viewer might want larger type in looking at the same information. XSL allows the same data to be presented in the format most appropriate to the viewer, or to be shifted from one page into a different format in a different application. Then subscribe to the IAW E-Mail Alert. Openwave Be a part of the communications revolution.