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Information on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a W3C Recommendation. An HTML document may specify a CSS sheet that is to be used when the document is displayed or printed. The term "cascading" means that two or more CSS style sheets may be specified, with one to be chosen based on specified priorities.
     CSS provides a simple, effective means for specifying the format of HTML documents, but is not able to depart from the basic structure of the source data. This means that CSS is not suitable for specifying the display of general XML documents, whose structure may be completely unrelated to the desired display format.
     A simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, and spacing) to Web documents.


Other topics in our resources on XML related to CSS include: 
 
  • XSL (Extensible Style Language)
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