Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Two new specs reached the official "Recomendations" level from the W3C today.XSL, the eXtensible Stylesheet Language, represents the abstraction layer that takes an XML document and formats it for representation (on a screen/web browser, printer, voice synth, etc). The new "T" is an addendum to this specification that allows for new DTDs (document type definitions) that define parameters for converting any given XML document to another type of XML document-- for instance, taking an XML-RPC command sequence and transforming it to a WDDX document for insertion into an activity log. The most obvious use for this new specification in the short term is to provide web content providers with a easy means of backward compatibility as they migrate web content to XML/XSL systems. With any number to XSLT tools available, content providers can develop a server-side filter to convert an XML/XSL document set back to vanilla HTML for viewing on older browsers and text only browsers.XPath is a new means of addressing an XML document using a tree-node stucture to assist in both format conversion (the XPath spec is reference by the XSLT spec for this purpose) and in data modeling. This is an analogue to the Document Object Mobel (DOM) previously published by the Consortium, but provides development utility in non object oriented programming languages.TLA (three letter acronym) count for this story: 16TAC (total acronym count) for this story: 22XSLT