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Joseph W. Lowery

"Dreamweaver CS3 Bible"

Now if you type
adding the trailing > supplies the closing
tag.
FIGURE 32-3
With Dreamweaver??™s Tag Library Editor, you can completely customize the crafting of new XML files.
Styling with XSL
Whereas HTML code has some degree of built-in styling??”browsers render content enclosed with

tags
much differently from what??™s within an tag??”XML has none: it??™s all just data. The Extensible
Stylesheet Language (XSL) specification developed the W3C is intended to give designers the power to
shape XML data. In fact, XSL has the potential to go beyond styling to actual transformation; functions
within XSL can, for example, sort the XML data it is passed.
Dreamweaver embraces XSL in a major way. Dreamweaver has the power to create XSL documents to fit a
variety of situations, including both server-side and client-side options. This facility opens a whole new
world of possibilities for Dreamweaver users. For example, designers can include information from RSS
(Really Simple Syndication) feeds right in their Web pages??”styled to fit into the look-and-feel of their site
??”through a very straightforward process. For intranet developers, XML reports, like those generated by
Dreamweaver??™s own Reports system, can be presented in a suitable fashion.


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