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Fortunately, due to its relative simplicity, there are no optical illusions associated with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets); all of the visual "trickery" in CSS is made possible with clear and concise style properties. CSS allows you to attach formatting styles to individual elements within an XML document. These styles are then used to determine how the elements in the document are rendered for display within a web browser. Even though the XML language doesn't inherently include any mechanism for defining how a document looks, CSS makes it possible to add a view to XML documents.
In this tutorial, you'll learn
- The basic structure and syntax of CSS
- How to create a basic CSS style sheet for an existing XML document
- How to control the layering of elements with CSS
- How to use margins and padding to control the spacing around and within elements
- How to format text using several different CSS style properties

XLink, an XML-related specification, lets you achieve dramatic linking effects in your XML documents. In this short tip learn how to include parts of other XML documents in your own XML through XLink. The code example demonstrates the technique.

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 provides powerful tools for the exchange of information between businesses. It allow you to create BizTalk schemas, to map fields and records from one specification to another, and to move data from one corporation to another using XML.

In this tutorial you will learn what exactly Web Services are and Why and How to use them.

Discover OpenDocument for Office Applications, an XML standard that lets you store and exchange documents, including word-processor, spreadsheet, and presentation files. Learn about OpenDocument files as multipart packages and as single XML documents, and how to structure text and tabular information in OpenDocument.