Re: [xsl] translate to XML using XSL into an HTML table

[B Tommie Usdin <btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 9:26 AM +0200 8/6/07, Florent Georges wrote:
> Steve wrote:
>
> >  On 8/3/07, oryann9 wrote:
>
>   Hi

...

>  > > on line 2 means the current entry? in other words what
> >  > does the "." mean?
>
>  > It means everything between the <FIRST>*this
> >  stuff*</FIRST> tag.
>
>   Please don't pronounce the T-word on this list.  In the
> context of the XPath data model, FIRST is an element.

There is nothing at all wrong with talking about TAGs on XSL-List, 
when the discussion is about tags. In this case, the discussion is 
about an element, and it is important to use the jargon correctly.

The "T-word", as Florent puts it, is not a dirty word on XSL-List. It 
is simply not an synonym of "element", and is something we rarely 
need to discuss in the context of XSL.

-- Tommie

(I am, perhaps, in too persnickety a mood - I am writing from the 
International Workshop on Markup of Overlapping Structures. I am 
surrounded by markup geeks and we all seem to be deeply concerned 
about precise descriptions of very fuzzy concepts.)
--

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