W3C began to develop XSL due to the need for an XML based style sheet language.
The XSL language consists of three parts: XSLT, XPath and XSL formatting objects. To learn more about XSL, please read our XSL tutorial. As a W3C recommendation, XSL 1.0 was released on October 15, 2001 as a language for expressing stylesheets. It consists of three parts: XSLT, XPath, and XSL formatting objects. XSLT 1.0 became the W3C recommendation on November 16, 1999. XSLT is a language used to convert XML documents into other XML documents. XSLT 2.0 became a W3C recommendation on January 23, 2007. XSL formatting object is a vocabulary used to specify formatting semantics. Formatting refers to the process of transforming the result of an XSL transformation into a suitable reader or listener. Although there is no separate W3C document for XSL formatting objects, a description can be foundin the XSL 1.0 recommendation. Standard Draft / proposal Recommended time XSL 1.0 Oct 2001 XSL 1.1 Dec 2006 XSLT 1.0 Nov 1999 XSLT 2.0 Jan 2007 XSLT 2.0 Requirements Feb 2001 4.8.1. XSL tutorial ¶
4.8.2. XSL version ¶
XSL 1.0 ¶
XSLT 1.0 ¶
XSLT 2.0 ¶
XSL-FO (XSL formatted object) ¶
4.8.3. W3C XSL specification and timeline ¶