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Misconceptions about XSL

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  1. 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
  2. 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)
  3. 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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