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Personally, I avoid using the term XSL because it means different things to different people. * For historical reasons some people use XSL to mean XSLT; * Microsoft historically used XSL to mean the WD-xsl language, an early approximation to XSLT; when both languages were in use they used the terms "XSL" and "XSLT" to distinguish them * Some people use XSL to mean what most of us call XSL-FO, because if you look at the XSL-FO spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/) you find that its title is "Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)" - although when you read on, you see that it says <quote> This specification defines the features and syntax for the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), a language for expressing stylesheets. It consists of two parts: 1. a language for transforming XML documents, and 2. an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics. </quote> which isn't actually true, because this spec doesn't define the features and syntax of part (1) at all; and within the rest of the XSL-FO spec, the term "XSL" is generally used to mean what the rest of the world calls XSL-FO. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Khorasani, Houman [mailto:Houman.Khorasani@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 10 February 2006 19:46 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Difference between XSL and XSLT > > Hello, > > I am having a presentation on Monday about XML, XSLT and XSD. I am > wondering what if they ask me what the difference between XSLT and XSL > is, or why we should use the one over the other...I didn't know how to > respond. > > I know XSLT is a subset o XSL. But still a bit confusing to > explain why > to use XSLT rather than XSL or vice versa... > > Any comment? > Thanks > Houman
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