[WEB4LIB] CSS and XML

[kimd at newtechnologypress.com]

Norman Desmarais of Providence College describes CSS in his recent book,
The ABCs of XML: the Librarian's Guide to the eXtensible Markup
Language. For more information about this book, go to
http://www.newtechnologypress.com/ntp/inprint.html.


Eric_Wees at pch.gc.ca wrote:
> 
> 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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