Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language that allows authors and users to attach style (e.g., fonts, spacing,) to structured documents (e.g., HTML documents and XML applications), by separating content of documents and the presentation style of documents. CSS simplifies site maintenance and Web authoring .
Common
XML is an independent language as compare to HTML. They have however as their "parent" language SGML. XML is also a metalanguage, which gives some basic rules, how XML-based languages should build. It has more exact syntax than HTML.
Unlike HTML, XML doesn't have any formatting code as such. XML is a pure markup language, where all start-tags, end-tags and empty elements tags are as such only markup codes. The formatting and presentation of XML-documents must be define with assistant languages (e.g. CSS).
Example of applying CSS to 'plain' XML
Here below the XML file containing the xml-stylesheet processing instruction and
second line , links the XML file to the CSS file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="css.css"?>
<schedule>
<date>Tuesday 20 June</date>
<programme>
<starts>6:00</starts>
<title>News</title>
With Michael Smith and Fiona Tolstoy.
Followed by Weather with Malcolm Stott.
</programme>
<programme>
<starts>6:30</starts>
<title>Regional news update</title>
Local news for your area.
</programme>
<programme>
<starts>7:00</starts>
<title>Unlikely suspect</title>
Whimsical romantic crime drama starring Janet
Hawthorne and Percy Trumpp.
</programme>
</schedule>
Share And Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Keywords: xml documents, style sheets, xml technologies, xml file, applying CSS, add style
