Level: Introductory Uche Ogbuji (uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com), Principal consultant, Fourthought Inc.
30 Nov 2004 Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) are well known as the most standards-compliant means of manipulating the look of HTML Web pages. They also happen to be the most practical way of displaying XML in browsers. Browsers have included support for CSS applied to XML much longer than XSLT, and the CSS implementations are generally more complete and reliable. This tutorial shows how to use CSS to present XML in Web browsers.
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes knowledge of XML, and some basic knowledge of CSS. Familiarity with XML Namespaces and XSLT is also recommended, but not required. Other tutorials in this series are:
System requirements
You will need JavaScript enabled in your browser. This tutorial uses a lot of stylesheet examples to demonstrate the usefulness of CSS for XML display. You can experiment with the examples in your favorite XML-aware browser. To try out the examples, you need a Web browser that supports XML and CSS Level 2 or better. The author presents the output of all examples using Firefox 1.0 Preview Release on Linux. Go to http://www.getfirefox.com/ to get that CSS-compliant Web browser. Based on Mozilla's rendering engine, Firefox is available on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other platforms.
Duration
Under two hours
Formats html, pdf
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