Re: [xsl] What do you call a stylesheet that doesn't require an input XML?

Subject: Re: [xsl] What do you call a stylesheet that doesn't require an input XML?
From: andrew welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:22:53 +0100
>     Andrew> traditional kind of transform as you can easily divide
>     Andrew> stylesheets into the 2 types of processing models - those
>     Andrew> with the XML supplied, and those where the stylesheet
>     Andrew> fetches the XML itself without an initial XML.
>
> There's a third kind - those that do not reference an XML document at
> all.
> There's quite a few of these in the test suite for FXSL.

I think the principle's the same though - the stylesheet is 'started'
and it controls the transform, rather than the host language.

"Stylesheet application" maybe...

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