RE: Anybody know when "transform" became the term for

> I note that the XSLT2 spec calls things
> modules quite often (perhaps pointing the way towards the 
> issues raised
> in the recent thread on separate compilation) although it always
> prefixes "module" with "stylesheet" so isn't really suggesting xslt
> module as an alternative to xslt stylesheet.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#dt-stylesheet-module
> [Definition: A stylesheet consists of one or more stylesheet modules,
> each one forming all or part of an XML document.] 
> 

The 2.0 spec is in fact very careful to distinguish the terms "stylesheet"
and "stylesheet module", unlike the 1.0 spec which used them
interchangeably.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/