HELLENICA exports to XSL

The eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is a family of transformation languages which allows one to describe how files encoded in the XML standard are to be formatted or transformed.

There are three languages in the family:

1. XSL Transformations (XSLT):
   an XML language for transforming XML documents
   
   
2. XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO):
   an XML language for specifying the visual formatting of an XML document
   
   
3. the XML Path Language (XPath):
   a non-XML language used by XSLT, and also available for use in non-XSLT contexts, for addressing the parts of an XML document.
   
   

These three specifications are available in the form of W3C Recommendations.

Within Microsoft, the term XSL is sometimes used to refer to a Microsoft variant of XSLT developed as an implementation of an early (1998) W3C draft of the XSLT language, with Microsoft-specific extensions and omissions. Other commentators generally refer to this dialect as WD-xsl. The dialect was later superseded by a conformant implementation of the W3C specification.