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http://www.rol.ru/news/it/helpdesk/xslt01.htm
[2] Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative to Use XML Encoding for Third Millennium Texts.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2001-11-06-c.html
[3] XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0. W3C Recommendation 27 June 2001.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/
[4] XSLT Requirements Version 2.0. W3C Working Draft, February 2001.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xslt20req-20010214
[5] Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition). W3C Recommendation 6 October 2000.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml
[6] Namespaces in XML. World Wide Web Consortium 14-January-1999.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/
[7] XML XLink Requirements Version 1.0. W3C Note 24-Feb-1999.
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-xlink-req/
[8] Document Style Semantics and Specication Language (DSSSL). ISO/IEC 10179:1996(E).
ftp://ftp.ornl.gov/pub/sgml/WG8/DSSSL/dsssl96b.pdf
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[12] Oleg Kiselyov. SXML, Revision 2.5. August 9, 2002.
http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/SXML.html
[13] D. Jacobs. Rescuing XSLT from Niche Status. http://www.xfront.com/rescuing-xslt.html
[14] XML Path (XPath) 1.0. W3C 16 1999.
http://www.xpath.info/docs/REC-xpath-19991116-ru.html

[15] XML Information Set. W3C Recommendation 24 October 2001.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/
[16] Kirill Lisovsky. STX: Scheme-enabled XSLT processor.
http://www.pair.com/lisovsky/transform/stx/
[17] .. , .. . XML Path (XPath)
SXPath. , 2003, 6, 4.
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[18] M. Kay. What kind of language is XSLT? February 2001.
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[19] Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Syntax. W3C Working Draft 23 January
2003.
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/