The Next Stage in Composition -- McIlroy

1) There was no language to describe the pagination of complex documents on the Web.

2) There was no way to deal with long documents and complex layouts.

3) The typography in CSS had been designed for browsers, not for print.

Data Conversion Laboratory, in its Website glossary, writes: "XSL. . . is a stylesheet language that gives us the ability to specify how data coded with XML will format on-screen (emphasis added). This language was developed based on the ISO companion standard for SGML known as DSSSL. . ."