What are Styles?
Styles determine how the feeds are presented to you. Feeds are basically XML
(Extended Markup Language) based formats. Such XML files
contain the feed's content and are generally quite cryptic to read. Styles
are used to transform XML data to HTML for presentable web pages. Active Web
Reader uses Extensible Style-sheet Language Transformations (XSLT) to define the
transformation from XML to HTML.
The advantage of using such a technique is that if the XSTL applied to an XML is
changed, the HTML produced after transformation also changes. In other words,
by changing XSTL, we can change the web page's look to suit the reading choice of
different users. Active Web Reader, by default, provides two styles.
See how to select style for
feed.
If you are a web developer and are aware of XML, XSLT and HTML then you can also
create your own XSLT for use with Active Web Reader. All XSLT files are located
in the XSL (Styles) folder where Active Web Reader is installed.
You can also use one of the existing XSLT files as templates to build your own.
Simply copy your style in the Styles folder and Active Web Reader will make
it available for you to select and use.
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