One attractive feature of structured documents is that the content can be reused in many contexts and presented in various ways.
Different style sheets can be attached to the logical structure to produce different presentations.
For content in structured documents to be presented, a set of stylistic rules – describing, for example, colors, fonts and layout – must be applied.
Style sheets in the form of written documents have a long history of use by editors and typographers to ensure consistency of presentation, spelling and punctuation.
In electronic publishing, style sheet languages are mostly used in the context of visual presentation rather than spelling and punctuation.