Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL ) is a standard for the processing of Standard Generalized Markup Language documents. DSSSL describes how such a structured document might be presented visually, or converted to something else, or processed in some other way. SGML is a document structure language; DSSSL is a document processing language, especially for presentation or transformation. DSSL contains separate parts and you can choose which parts of the standard to use when creating a DSSSL definition. It contains standards for a style language, Flow objects, a transformation language, a document model, and a query language. Introduction to DSSSL Jade - James' DSSSL Engine
Document Style Semantics and Specifications Language
Document Style Semantics and Specification Language DSSSL is an ISO standard for SGML documents' style sheet specifications. Just as SGML is the granny of HTML and XML, DSSSL is the granny of CSS. The conventions of CSS look similar to DSSSL statements. DSSSL is more powerful than CSS because it supports style programming, while CSS is just a list of properties.
Document Style Semantics and Specification Language. The standard language for processing or converting documents, DSSSL can, as an example, be used to translate HTML into WML.
See Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL).
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Document Style Semantics and Specification Language. An ISO standard used for formatting SGML documents for display on screen or paper. DSSSL was designed to replace the older FOSI standard.
Document Style Semantics and Specification Language ( ISO/ IEC 10179:1996). An international standard stylesheet language for SGML/ XML documents.
This draft international standard (DIS 10179) applies to the specification of processing information for SGML documents. DSSSL became an international standard in 1995. DSSSL (Document Style Semantics and Specification Language. DSSSL is a very powerful document transformation and formatting language that never really caught on -- largely due to its complexity. One of the goals behind XSL is to provide DSSSL-like semantics without using DSSSL's complex syntax. (Instead, an XML-based syntax is used.)
A general purpose system of style sheets for SGML.