XSL is a family of recommendations for defining XML document transformation and presentation. It consists of three parts:
An XSLT stylesheet specifies the presentation of a class of XML documents by describing how an instance of the class is transformed into an XML document that uses a formatting vocabulary, such as (X)HTML or XSL-FO. For a more detailed explanation of how XSL works, see the What Is XSL page.
XSLT is developed by the W3C XSLT Working Group (members only) whose charter is to develop the next version of XSLT. XSLT is part of W3C's XML Activity, whose work is described in the XML Activity Statement.
XPath is developed jointly by the XQuery and XSLT Working Groups.
XSL-FO is now developed by the XML Print and Page Layout Working Group.
Liquid XML Editor 2011 now features an advanced XSLT debugger and an XSLT-aware editor with validation, supporting XSLT 1 and 2.
LIBX* is a project to implement XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0 based on the libxml2 and libxslt Gnome C libraries.
MarkLogic Server 4.2 includes a C++ implementation of XSLT 2.0 that runs directly against documents stored in the database.
oXygen XML Editor version 11 now lets you generate documentation for XSLT stylesheet components in XHTML, including comprehensive annotations and cross references.
Design Notes for XSL-FO 2.0 wsa published. It is an early draft, but we are very much looking for feedback.
data2type has made a range of documents available in German relating to XML, XSLT, XSL-FO and XPath.
Altsoft s.r.o. has released Xml2PDF 2009 beta with complete HTML and DOC support, improved SVG and DocX support, digital signatures in PDF and XPS, and many other improvements.
This is a major release of Antenna House XSL Formatter that adds a 64-bit Windows version of Formatter and two major options, the INX Creator Option and the CGM Option.
blogpaper, a Web-based interface for making PDF or PostScript from blogs, wiki pages, Web pages and more, uses RenderX.
The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Requirements Version 2.0 have been published, along with a Survey to ask potential implementors and users for feedback on the relative importance of the proposed new features.