Subject: RE: [xsl] XSL Sites From: "Max Dunn" <maxdunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 21:44:25 -0700 |
Hi, The ultimate XSL site is Dave Pawson's FAQ: http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/xslfaq.html He explains some of the "XSL" vs. "XSLT" mystery at: http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/vocab.html#d44e2535 under XSL and XSLT You could also look at the sites listed at: http://www.siliconpublishing.org/xml.asp and http://www.siliconpublishing.org/xsl.asp which include links to the: XML: http://www.xml.com/axml/testaxml.htm (that's the annotated version...) XSL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/ XSLT: http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt.html XPath: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath.html specifications Quoting the beginning of the XSLT spec: "This specification defines the syntax and semantics of XSLT, which is a language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents." "XSLT is designed for use as part of XSL, which is a stylesheet language for XML. In addition to XSLT, XSL includes an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting. XSL specifies the styling of an XML document by using XSLT to describe how the document is transformed into another XML document that uses the formatting vocabulary." "XSLT is also designed to be used independently of XSL. However, XSLT is not intended as a completely general-purpose XML transformation language. Rather it is designed primarily for the kinds of transformations that are needed when XSLT is used as part of XSL." This should explain something of the relationship of "XSL" the general term to what many think of as its "XSLFO" (the "formatting vocabulary" above) and "XSLT" subsets. The XSLT spec also explains of XPath: "XSLT makes use of the expression language defined by XPath for selecting elements for processing, for conditional processing and for generating text." For practical purposes XPath can be considered a subset (or "used expression language") of XSLT, and XSLT and XSLFO can be considered the transformation and style components of the superset "XSL". It should also be noted that while there's a finished, well implemented XSLT 1.0, the XSLFO side of things is less finished and less well implemented, it seems either the FO side is more difficult/political or they bit off more for the 1.0 version of formatting than they did for transformation. Hope this makes sense... Max http://www.siliconpublishing.org/ -----Original Message----- From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sheryl Garde Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 6:04 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [xsl] XSL Sites Hi, I'm just new to XSL/XML stuffs. Could someone help me better understand all about XSL/XML. Maybe you could give me a better site wherein i can be able to understand/ study about XSL/XML. One more thing, im quite confuse about this. What is the difference between XSL and XSLT/XPath/XSLFO? Maybe someone could clarify this for me.. thanks, -she- :) XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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