Re: [xsl] [XSL-FO] Way to include an outside stylesheet?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2012-02-08 09:46 +0000, Florent Georges wrote:
> Wendell Piez wrote:
> > "XSL", in fact, properly means the combination of XSLT and
> > XSL-FO, even if it's also commonly used to mean XSLT without
> > XSL-FO.
>   Even worse...  Some people use it to refer to XSLT (like an
> "abbreviation" of XSLT, mainly because of the usual extension
> .xsl I guess).

My students tell me the confusion is because of the choice of the 
namespace prefix in code they've seen ... I am often asked "Then why 
isn't it <xslt:value-of>?".

Of course the very first examples of XSLT were created when XSLT was 
chapter 2 of XSL.  Well, it still is as a reference, but in the first 
drafts, before it was split off, all of XSLT was described in the 
body of chapter 2 of XSL.

> Some people use it to refer to XSL-FO, as the XSL
> spec actually refers to the XSLT spec, but includes (and is) the
> spec body for XSL-FO.  And I guess some people use it to refer to
> XSL, but I rarely have the opportunity to speak about XSL as a
> whole ;-)
>
>   My rule of thumb: always use either XSLT or XSL-FO, and if you
> hear XSL, ask for precision.

+1

. . . . . . . . . Ken


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