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XML and XSLT

• “Standard” technologies from W3C
• Demonstrated track record of success
• XML: Extensible Markup Language
  • A refinement of SGML (ISO 8859:1986)
  • 1.0 since 1998, now in 1.1 (essentially the same, with fixes to character encoding)
• XSLT
  • 1.0 since 1999
  • 2.0 not officially finished, but already useful albeit bleeding-edge
  • We will have both XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 examples