'StyleScript' adds some syntactic sugar to XSLT to make stylesheets more readable. It lets authors cut down on XSL's verbosity, without losing any of the power. Stylesheets are also freed from the constraints of XML, like entity references ('&').

XML Template Pages encourages web sites to create JSP tag libraries. By putting the JSP creation in stylesheets, you can separate the programming from the web pages. The XTP pages can be simple XML or HTML documents and simply add the custom tags as necessary.