W3C XSL Activities

Style sheets describe how documents are displayed, pronounced, or printed. The XSL language consists of three parts: XSLT, XPath, and XSL Formatting Objects.

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XSL Versions

XSL 1.0

XSL 1.0 was released as a W3C Recommendation 15. October 2001 as a language for expressing style sheets. It consists of three parts: XSLT, XPath, and XSL Formatting Objects. An XSL style sheet specifies the presentation of a class of XML documents by describing how an instance of the class is transformed into an XML document that uses the formatting vocabulary.

XSLT 1.0

XSLT 1.0 was released as a W3C Recommendation 16. November 1999. XSLT is a language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents.

XPath 1.0

XPath 1.0 was released as a W3C Recommendation 16. November 1999. XPath is a language for selecting parts of an XML document. XPath is designed to be used by both XSLT and XPointer.

XSL Formatting Objects

XSL Formatting Objects is an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics. Formatting is the process of turning the result of an XSL transformation into a suitable output form for a reader or listener. No separate W3C document exists for XSL Formatting Objects, but a description can be found inside the XSL 1.0 Recommendation.

W3C XSL Specifications and Timeline

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