Day 8. Formatting XML by Using Cascading Style Sheets

Say that you want to take a look at the data in an XML document by using a browser. You might be out of luck unless you're using a specialized XML browser that can handle the particular XML markup you're using, such as the W3C Amaya browser that handles MathML. However, there are very few specialized XML browsers out there, and there's a great deal of XML. Don't you have any other options? You do. For one, you can use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Many browsers, such as Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer, let you use CSS to format the data in XML documents for display, and today you're going to see how that works. It's getting more and more common to see CSS-formatted XML on the Web, and it often makes sense to display data by using CSS. You might want to create a table, for example, which is a lot easier on the eyes than a 40-page XML document.

Here's an overview of today's topics:

  • Creating CSS style sheets and CSS rules
  • Using CSS style sheets with XML documents
  • Selecting elements in style sheets
  • Grouping elements
  • Creating CSS classes
  • Selecting elements by ID
  • Using inline styles
  • Using block elements
  • Formatting text
  • Aligning text
  • Creating margins
  • Displaying images
  • Creating lists
  • Creating tables

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