Style Sheets for XML

Today we are going to learn about how to add styles to XML elements. As we know HTML have predefined tags and we can add styles to HTML element by CSS but XML does not use predefined tags so we can add styles to XML element by XSL that is Xtensible style sheets language. By XSL we can transform, navigate,format the XML documents.

For giving styles to XML document it needs a proper style sheets declaration on the top of the XML document.

Here is a XML document named style-sheets.xml

We have to link a XSL style sheet file to the XML document so that XML document will behave as per the XSL style sheet. Here is a XSL file named style_sheet.xsl

 

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