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Re: Why is there an "S" in XSLT?

• From: "Mukul Gandhi" <gandhi.mukul@g...>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 21:50:12 +0530

I might write any arbitrary functionality in a XSLT stylesheet. For
e.g., I might add two numbers in a XSLT stylesheet. "Stylesheet" is a
generic term given to the grammar:

<xsl:stylesheet
  etc ..
</xsl:stylesheet>

My personal opinion is, that the term "Stylesheet" is fine and caters
to all sorts of things we can write in this grammar.

On 5/19/08, Costello, Roger L. <costello@m...> wrote:
>
> 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


-- 
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi

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