Re: [xsl] Is XSLT the right name?

[Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 bryan.s.schnabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > As I consider the tasks I perform using XSL and XSLT, I don't think of them
> > as "stylesheet" tasks.  I think of them as "transformation" tasks. 
> 
> But stylesheets *are* transformations...they transform
> information from one format to another.

Yes.  All stylesheets are transforms, but not all transforms are stylesheets.  
The problem is that much of the use of XSLT I see, like the XML -> flat text 
transform, is in no way a "stylesheet".


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