Dynamic Content and Format

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology grade: 17 University of the Federal Armed Forces München (Institut für Softwaretechnologie/Institute for Software Technology) course: Seminar Document Engineering language: English abstract: XML is text but isn't meant to be readNumber three in WorldWideWeb Consortium's (W3C) XML in 10 points [W3C 2001] pinpoints one main feature and problem of XML languages. They only describe the contained information based on structural aspects and separate it from the design. In order to present this information for example as a web page or in print they have to be transformed into an appropriate form. XSL is an concept for expressing stylesheets that can transform XML documents. This paper provides an overview over the main concepts of transforming XML with XSL describes another representative of generic markup LATEX and shows how these concepts can be brought together into practice.