[WEB4LIB] CSS and XML

[Gina Minks]

Hi Eric,

XML uses the eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) for stylesheets.  A really
terrific resource on XSL, XSLT, XML, CSS and a whole lot more is Robin
Cover's "XML Cover Pages" at http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/ which is
sponsored by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured
Information Standards).  This is a tremendous resource and covers a ton of
material on markup languages.

Hope this helps!
-Gina

Gina L. B. Minks
Special Collections Librarian
McFarlin Library - University of Tulsa
2933 E. 6th
Tulsa OK  74104-3123
gina-minks at utulsa.edu
tel: 918-631-3133
fax: 918-631-5022

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Subject: [WEB4LIB] CSS and XML


I am unclear re. the relationship between XML and CSS.  I have built my
library's site using CSS and HTML but in the long run, XML may be the
scripting
language of choice within the larger intranet environment of which our
library
is a part, especially as this organization builds web pages and other
electronic
resources that employ Dublin Core metadata.  My understanding is that a page
written with XML absolutely requires an accompanying style sheet for it to
display in browsers, but can that style sheet be CSS or is there a separate
XML-related style sheet used for this purpose?   Thanks for any insights.

Eric Wees
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