• Properly done (like DSSSL), XSL enables XML to serve as an international publishing format
• XML+XSL could allow the whole operation to be based end-to-end on a uniformly processible Unicode text stream
  • Data
  • Stylesheets
  • Formatting objects
  • Instructions to the formatter
• A mass transition to XML+XSL will change the whole translation business
  • Data human-readable and freely interchangeable
  • Tools cheap and freely interoperable
  • Qualified personnel available everywhere
  • A common infrastructure

XML & JAVA:   PORTABLE DATA — PORTABLE PROGRAMS