| Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 5.0 for Microsoft Office - XSLT Developer's Guide |  |
| Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 5.0 for Microsoft Office - XSLT Developer's Guide | |
For Web-based XML applications, it is often important not only to transform XML into HTML (a primary use of XSLT), but also to format the resulting HTML. An XSLT transformation can easily emit <FONT> elements, bgcolor attributes for <BODY> elements, and so on, just as easily as it can emit other HTML.
For a number of important reasons, however, your HTML code will benefit from using cascading style sheets (CSS) to control the appearance of a page and other aspects of presentation. Luckily, you can combine the transformational strengths of XSLT with the formatting capabilities of CSS.
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