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Formatting of XML documents

stylesheet languages are utilized
stylesheet language separates presentation and content
XML document + stylesheet ⇒ formatted document
advantages of using styles
- one stylesheet can be used for many documents (uniform look)
- for one document we can use several different stylesheets depending on a requested target format
stylesheet languages
- CSS—simple, not very powerful, used mainly in visual editors
- XSL—very powerful and flexible
  - XSLT—transformation of XML into XML, HTML or text
  - XSL-FO—print output formatting