unit 5 - cascading style sheets (css) xml - level i basic
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XML - Level I Basic
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Unit 5 - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Unit objectives Identify the benefits and limitations of styling
XML documents with CSS, and link an XML document to a style sheet.
Apply simple CSS styles to an XML document.
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Topic A Topic A: CSS and XML Topic B: CSS styles
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Overview of Cascading Style Sheets
CSS specifications control a document’s appearance
Several stages of CSS1, CSS2, and now CSS3 specifications are in development CSS3 is modular
W3C provides a CSS Validation Service at its Web site
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Linking to external style sheets Syntax: Prolog
<?xml-stylesheet type=“text/css”
href=“stylesheetname.css” ?>
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External style sheet reference
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Processing external style sheets File is passed to XML parser which reads the
prolog with the declaration (stylesheetname.css) and retrieves that file
Parser passes data from both files to browser Processes the data and displays the result
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Student Exercise Topic A – CSS & XML A-1: Linking a XML Document to a CSS Style
Sheet
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Unit summary Learned how to identify the benefits and
limitations of styling XML documents with CSS Learned how to link an XML document to a style
sheet.
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