XSL and CSS

[Mr Initial Man]

If you are using XSL to display an XML file, does that mean that using CSS is useless for presentation?

[Charles]

No,, not at all. Or at least it depends upon how you are using the XSL. If you are transforming the XML to HTML then you will need CSS to make it pretty. But if you are transforming to Formatting Objects, Rich Text Format or God Knows What then CSS might be superfluous.

[Mr Initial Man]

I'm setting up an XSL page so I can view an XML backup of a database as a webpage.

[Charles]

So then I'm guessing that you are transforming to HTML.

[Mr Initial Man]

Yes.