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The Extensible Stylesheet Language Family (XSL)

Iulie 8th, 2007

XSL is a family of recommendations for defining XML document transformation and presentation. It consists of three parts:

XSL Transformations (XSLT): a language for transforming XML
the XML Path Language (XPath): an expression language used by XSLT to access or refer to parts of an XML document. (XPath is also used by the XML Linking specification)
XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO): an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics

An XSLT stylesheet specifies the presentation of a class of XML documents by describing how an instance of the class is transformed into an XML document that uses a formatting vocabulary, such as (X)HTML or XSL-FO. For a more detailed explanation of how XSL works, see the What Is XSL page.

For background information on style sheets, see the Web style sheets resource page. XSL is developed by the W3C XSL Working Group (members only) whose charter is to develop the next version of XSL. XSL is part of W3C’s XML Activity, whose work is described in the XML Activity Statement.

2007-05-12: oXygen 8.2 released

oXygen 8.2 supports editing, running, debugging and profiling for XSLT 1 and 2, and now adds support for included and imported XSLT stylesheet fragments. It also adds new features for working with XML Query.

2007-05-11: xmlroff 0.5.0 released

xmlroff 0.5.0, a C-based open source XSL-FO implementation, was released. The new release is easier to build, having fewer dependencies.

2007-05-08: Altsoft Xml2PDF 2007 released

Altsoft Xml2PDF 2007 (Server .NET API, Workstation and Viewer) is released. Convert XSL-FO (v. 1.1), Word 2003-2007, XHTML and SVG documents to PDF, XPS, PS and TIFF. Free for evaluation purposes and desktop use.

2007-01-25: Altsoft Xml2PDF 2007 beta available

Altsoft Xml2PDF Server 2007 beta is now available. One of the major improvements is XPS, XAML and DocX support.

2007-01-23: XSLT 2.0 is a W3C Recommendation

XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and supporting specifications are now W3C Recommendations.

2006-12-21: XSLfast 3.1 released

XSLfast is a graphical editor with WYSIWYG and drag&drop to create XSL-FO stylesheets easily. It supports several XSL-FO renderers like FOP or XEP.

2006-12-12: XF Rendering Server gets XPS generation capabilities

Ecrion XF Rendering Server has been updated to support Microsoft XML Paper Specification (XPS) alongside Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

2006-12-07: Antenna House XSL Formatter V4.1 Released

Antenna House XSL Formatter V4.1 is now available, and implements the new features of the Extensible stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 W3C Recommendation.