Synonyms
eXtensible Stylesheet Language; eXtensible Stylesheet Language transformations; XSL-FO; XSL formatting objects
Definition
XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) is a family of W3C recommendations for specifying XML document transformations and typesettings. XSL is composed of three separate parts:
XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations): a template-rule based language for the structural transformation of XML documents.
XPath (XML Path Language): a structured query language for the pattern, type and value-based selection of XML document nodes.
XSL-FO (XML Formatting Objects): an XML vocabulary for the paper document oriented typesetting of XML documents.
Historical Background
The W3C working group on XSL was created in December 1997 and a first working draft was released in August 1998. XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0 became W3C recommendations in November 1999, and XSL-FO reached recommendation status in October 2001. During the succeeding development of XQuery, both the...
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Amann, B. (2018). XSL/XSLT. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_773
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