Document Style Semantics and Specification Language

DSSSL [ dɪsl ] is the abbreviation for Document Style Semantics and Specification Language. It is a technology developed by James Clark transformation and formatting language for SGML documents, also for XML. The language uses a subset of ISO dialect of Scheme, a functional programming language that has emerged from LISP. DSSSL is considered in turn as a predecessor of XSL and XSLT.

Reference literature

  • Document Style Semantics and Specification Language, ISO / IEC 10179:1996, International Organization for Standardization, 1996
  • The relationship between the languages ​​DSSSL, CSS, XSL and XSLT is presented in chapter 9 of the book XML in the practice of Behme / Mintert. The beyond existing connection to markup languages ​​such as SGML, XML, HTML, XHTML can be found in the first chapter.
James Clark (programmer) Scheme (programming language) Lisp (programming language)
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