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> 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). hmm that isn't what it says in http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/ of which of course XSLT was originally a part. > The niche that XSLT occupies is the "T" part - That's why it's name is" XSLT" it is "XSL" (the styling language) with "T" stuck on the end, because it's the "T"ransformation language _for_ "XSL". The fact that it can be (and these days perhaps more often is) used for other transformations as well is a bonus. > Shouldn't it really be called XLT (XML Language for Transformations)? The fact that xslt rather pointlessly has two alternative names for the top level element (xsl:stylesheet and xsl:transform) suggests that that question is as old as the language. David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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