Subject: Re: [xsl] Basic: Diferrence between XSL and XSLT From: "cutlass" <cutlass@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 17:17:40 +0100 |
maybe RDF would help here ? as now i understand why we were talking about ducks... ------- |animals| ------- | | ----- ----- |cow| |bird| ----- ----- | ----- |milk| ----- | ------- |cheese| ------- cheers ,jim fuller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendell Piez" <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 5:10 PM Subject: RE: [xsl] Basic: Diferrence between XSL and XSLT > At 08:23 PM 10/8/01, Tim wrote: > >Also XSL as a spec of w3c has XSLT and xsl-fo as sub classes. (Like > >different classes of cheese - although a strange choice of subject!) Just as > >'Birds' discribes a group, and pigeons and sea gulls are types of birds - > >XSL has XSLT and xsl-fo > > While this analogy does possibly capture the "subclass/superclass" > relationship of the specifications, it is still somewhat forced. XSL is to > XSLT as cheese is to Cheddar fails because XSLT is not really a "type" of > XSL. Nor does the recipe for cheese (the Cheese Specification) include the > recipe for Cheddar (Cheddar 1.0). > > Rather, I'd say XSL is to XSLT as cheese is to milk. One generally needs > milk to make cheese. A definition of what constitutes milk (source, > butterfat content etc.) has to be included in the Cheese Specification. A > cheese-eating society might well see milk as mainly significant or > interesting as a primary ingredient in cheese. > > Yet milk is, while an ingredient in cheese, also much more general-purpose. > In fact, most users of milk don't make cheese out of it. (Just so, many > people write XSLT transforms without writing "XSL stylesheets" in the > fullest sense implied by the XSL specification, since they're not > targetting XSL formatting objects.) > > Since, however, the only normative definition of what constitutes milk, is > in the Cheese Specification (albeit published separately as Milk 1.0 in the > knowledge that milk is also good for other things), naturally much of the > discussion on the Cheese-makers listserv, is about milk. It becomes, de > facto, a discussion not only about cheese, but also about cheese-related > products and other things made of milk, other things Cheese-makers (and > others) do with milk, the properties of milk (boiling, curdling, controlled > spoilage), various kinds of milk and milk additives, etc. In fact, if > anyone wants to know about milk, they ultimately have to come to the > Cheese-makers, since "milk" is defined only as a part of "cheese". > > What we don't talk about is that "Cheese Food Product" stuff that is > actually made out of soy protein, and is only (falsely) called "cheese" by > its marketers. > > Confused enough yet? > Cheese, > Wendell > > > ====================================================================== > Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com > 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 > Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 > Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML > ====================================================================== > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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