Entity: XSL
XSL, short for Extensible Stylesheet Language, is a transformation language for XML documents used for complex styling operations and general XML processing.
XSL
Etymology
The acronym XSL stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language.
Definition
XSL is a transformation language for XML documents, originally intended for complex styling operations such as generating tables of contents and indexes. It is now widely used as a general-purpose XML processing language.
Historical Context
XSL is similar to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in HTML and is compatible with CSS2. An XML document is converted by an XSLT Processor into a new format based on three sets of XSL description languages.
Cultural Significance
XML Path Language (XPath), a part of the XSL family, functions within XSLT as a means of navigating an XML document.
Related Concepts
XSL is part of a family of standards that includes XSLT, Path, and XSL-FO.
See Also
A language for expressing stylesheets and a family of standards that includes XSLT, Path, and XSL-FO.