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Why is there an "S" in XSLT?

• From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• To: <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 10:34:13 -0400

Hi Folks,

The "S" in XSLT stands for "stylesheet."  But in modern web design
practices styling a document (i.e., adding text color, font-size,
borders, and so forth) is accomplished using Cascading Stylesheets
(CSS).  

The niche that XSLT occupies is the "T" part - transforming XML
documents (i.e. tearing an XML document apart, rearranging its parts,
merging parts, and some processing of the data).

Shouldn't it really be called XLT (XML Language for Transformations)?

/Roger

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