RE: The beginning of xslt?

> How did the development of xslt begin? Is there a person who 
> said that something like this would be needed? I came to this 
> question, while I was doing some research about xslt development.

You may find the background reading at http://www.w3.org/Style/History/
useful.

However: be warned. I relied largely on this material when writing the
potted history in Chapter 1 of XSLT Programmer's Reference. Sharon Adler
tells me I got it wrong. It's probably a general truth that history
based solely on documentary evidence always gets it wrong, because most
things that happen are not written down.

And of course it doesn't really attempt to analyze the complex
relationship between user pull and supplier push which I think your
diagram was hinting at. Like all technologies, XSLT happened because
some inventive people thought there was a user problem that it would
solve.

At the heart of it was the generally-held belief that information
content and presentation needed to be separated. That is, HTML needed to
be separated into XML+XSL.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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