DSSSL is used as an International Standard and represents a style sheet language, whereas XSL consists of CSS is already a stylesheet language and used as a standard language.
DSSSL is used to provide the formatting technique for the documents that can be printed, whereas XSL USES the formatting technique to write the data in XSL format.
DSSSL uses –O profile that provides additional capabilities and remove the FUNCTIONALITY for PROVIDING online documentation, whereas XSL doesn’t provide the functionality.
DSSSL continues to provide the web-oriented the style sheet language with the integration of the CSS, whereas XSL provides no such feature. th CSS.
DSSSL provide the capabilities of XSL and it continues to provide the services to publishing industry, whereas XSL doesn’t USE the capabilities of it.