Incidentally, XSLT and XSL-FO were initially part of the same
specification. I think one of the main reasons XSLT was split off
into a separate specification is that people quickly came to realize
how useful it would be for applications having nothing to do with
style or formatting. It has become a kind of general purpose data
transformation language.
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Gregory Woodhouse
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"It is foolish to answer a question that
you do not understand."
--G. Polya ("How to Solve It")
On Jul 14, 2005, at 5:45 AM, Gregory Woodhouse wrote:
XSLT is a kind of mini-language that allows you to transform (hence
the 'T') the structure of XML documents. It was originally
intended as a stylesheet language (hence the 'S') that could be
used to transform XML to HTML, a special formatting markup intended
primarily for print (XSL Formatting Objects, or XSL-FO) or even
other formats like plain text. Sim[;e stylesheets include selectors
for specific elements and output templates indicating what should
be replaced in with elements from the input document, but the
language also supports more complex conditional logic.
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