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Subject: Re: Two recommendations: (1) Call it XSLT "program" (not XSLT "stylesheet"), (2) stop treating XSLT as an acronym
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:24:34 -0400

Hi,

At 08:12 AM 5/22/2010, was written:

RECOMMENDATION #1

When you write or talk about an XSLT document, call it a program. Don't call it a stylesheet. For example, say this: "I wrote an XSLT program to screen-scrape Yahoo Finance." Don't say this: "I wrote an XSLT stylesheet to screen-scrape Yahoo Finance."

It is regrettable that XSLT is an acronym standing for XML _Stylesheet_ Language Transformations. As described above, rarely (if ever) is XSLT used for styling. Thus, the acronym is completely misleading. This leads to my second recommendation.

RECOMMENDATION #2

Stop treating XSLT as an acronym. It is just the name of a programming language, just as Java is the name of a programming language.

Comments?

Much depends on the spirit in which such recommendations are made.

The paradox is that the more seriously they are intended, the harder they are for me to take seriously.

Cheers,
Wendell


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