 | Level: Intermediate Uche Ogbuji (uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com), Principal consultant, Fourthought Inc.
20 Jun 2005
In Parts 1 and 2 of this tutorial series, Uche Ogbuji has shown how to use Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) to display XML in browsers, presenting basic and advanced techniques. Although some people see XSLT and CSS as opposing technologies, they are actually very complementary. CSS cannot, and is not designed to, handle many XML rendering tasks. You can use XSLT for many such tasks, and even manage the CSS that is still used to fine-tune the presentation. This tutorial covers techniques for using XSLT to process XML in association with CSS.
Anyone who works with XML should take this tutorial. Even if CSS and XSLT don't cover your needs for production Web publishing, they are great tools for general processing, debugging, and experimentation. They offer rich interaction with other XML technologies and you'll be likely to run into CSS and XSLT even when you least expect them.
In this tutorial
- Basics of using XSLT to generate HTML and CSS
- Using XSLT to generate HTML using full CSS stylesheets
- Using XSLT to generate XML using CSS
- Advanced notes
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes knowledge of XML, CSS, XPath, and XSLT. 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 on Fedora Core 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 one hour
Formats html, pdf
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