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Summary

In this tutorial, you learned how to work with XSLT and CSS, picking up many useful techniques, including how to:

• Use stand-alone XSLT processors to generate HTML with CSS
• Generate HTML with CSS directly within XSLT-capable browsers
• Generate HTML with CSS in style attributes
• Use attribute sets to generate groups of related attributes together
• Use XSLT computational features to dynamically generate CSS details
• Generate HTML with CSS in an in-line stylesheet
• Generate HTML with CSS in an external stylesheet, including the use of EXSLT to create such an external document from XSLT
• Generate HTML that uses class or id attributes as hooks for the CSS
• Maintain modularity in code that generates CSS
• Generate XML declarations and stylesheet PIs
• Work with the CSS character model
• Set up dynamic JavaScript manipulation of CSS in HTML that's generated through XSLT

This is a wide range of topics, but it merely scratches the surface of what you can achieve with XML, XSLT and CSS using current technology. I strongly encourage you to push the boundaries through a lot of practice and experimentation, using the example code presented here as a starting point.

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Table of contents

• Tutorial introduction
• Basics of using XSLT to generate HTML and CSS
• Using XSLT to generate HTML using full CSS stylesheets
• Using XSLT to generate XML with CSS
• Advanced notes
• Wrap up
• Download
• Resources
• About the author

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