May 27, 2021 W3C Standard
W3C began to develop XSL because of the need for an XML-based style sheet language.
The XSL language consists of three parts: XSLT, XPath, and XSL formatted objects.
To learn more about XSL, read our XSL tutorial.
As a W3C recommendation, XSL 1.0 was released as a language for expressing style sheets on October 15, 2001. It consists of three parts: XSLT, XPath, and XSL format objects.
XSLT 1.0 became the W3C recommendation on November 16, 1999. XSLT is a language used to convert XML documents to other XML documents.
XSLT 2.0 became the W3C recommendation on January 23, 2007.
XSL Format Object A glossary that specifies formatting semantics. F ormatting refers to the process of transforming the results of an XSL conversion into a suitable reader or listener. Although there are no separate W3C documents for XSL formatted objects, relevant descriptions can be found in the XSL 1.0 recommendation.
| specification | Draft / proposal | Recommended time |
|---|---|---|
| XSL 1.0 | 15. Oct 2001 | |
| XSL 1.1 | 05. Dec 2006 | |
| XSLT 1.0 | 16. Nov 1999 | |
| XSLT 2.0 | 23. Jan 2007 | |
| XSLT 2.0 Requirements | 14. Feb 2001 |