HTML vs. XSL Formatting Objects

Transformation is independent of the target result type

Most people are more familiar with HTML so many of the examples in this tutorial use HTML

The XSL implementation in IE5 is incomplete. The examples in this tutorial will not work in IE5

The techniques apply equally well to XSL Formatting Objects or other tag sets

XSLT is a tree-to-tree transformation process

Serialization may vary depending on the selected output method

There is a distinction between HTML element names and HTML