Stylesheets have established themselves as a very general-purpose tool, not just for rendering XML documents for display, but for automatically generating new documents.

样式表已经确立了自身作为一种非常通用的工具的地位，它的作用不只是呈现XML文档以进行显示，还可以自动生成新文档。

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Buy-side firms that did run risk management might have used Riskmetrics or Algorithmics, , while others used Excel, a flexible all-purpose tool not designed for specific tasks like risk management.

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From being the orphan of scanning methods, therefore, ultrasonics looks as though it may become a general-purpose medical tool.

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The purpose of this GSIM tool is to facilitate gender equality and women empowerment in and through media of all forms, irrespective of the technology used.

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