| - Misconception: XSL is competition for CSS
- Fact: XSL is a parallel formatting language
designed to solve a set of problems unique to the page-oriented display
of structured documents
- Misconception: XSL is something new
- Fact: A formatting language separate from
CSS and specially designed for the needs of XML was part of the XML
charter from the beginning (1996)
- Misconception: XSL is just a transformation
language (XML to HTML)
- Fact: The transformation component of XSL
exists to satisfy the formatting requirements; the formatting
requirements of XSL are primary
- Rendering through HTML generation is a stopgap to get us
past the transition to better XML formatting; it is not and never has
been the end goal of XSL
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