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Re: XSL and related specifications

• From: "l@tlo" <lists@traduction-libre.org>
• To: Norm Tovey-Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
• Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:30:35 +0900

Richard Ishida gave me a contact at the W3C, so maybe we would take some time to discuss what would be relevant to change on that page?

Jean-Christophe 

> https://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
> 
> says:
> 
> XSL is a family of recommendations for defining XML document transformation and presentation. It consists of three parts:
> 
> - XSL Transformations (XSLT)
>  a language for transforming XML;
> 
> - The XML Path Language (XPath)
>  an expression language used by XSLT (and many other languages) to access or refer to parts of an XML document;
> 
> - XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)
>  an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics.
> 
> but the link from XSL-FO points at https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/
> 
> where it says:
> 
> This specification defines the features and syntax for the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), a language for expressing stylesheets. It consists of two parts:
> 
> - a language for transforming XML documents (XSLT), and
> 
> - an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics.
> 
> Is that vocabulary XSL-FO? It's a bit confusing.
> 


> On Apr 14, 2023, at 19:26, Norm Tovey-Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> 
>> I can't imagine the W3 contact for that activity is not on this
>> list...
> 
> W3C closed the XML Activity so I don’t think there *is* a contact anymore.
> 
>                                        Be seeing you,
>                                          norm
> 
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