Subject: RE: [xsl] FOO vs FO From: "Hewko, Doug" <Doug.Hewko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:34:10 -0400 |
Thanks! The story behind it is quite interesting! I'm very surprised that I've never heard of it before I started to learn XML. > -----Original Message----- > From: cutlass [mailto:cutlass@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: September 6, 2001 8:04 AM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [xsl] FOO vs FO > > > FOO is from foobar, a military term > > which means something like Fouled Up Beyond All Belief > > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3092.txt > > cheers, jim fuller > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hewko, Doug" <Doug.Hewko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:58 PM > Subject: [xsl] FOO vs FO > > > > Does anyone know why FOO was chosen to mean anything? > > > > From the W3 site, in a message at > > > "http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/msg00613.html", someone > asked > > "What does foo.bar mean in CSS?". The response was: > > > > Ah, a puzzle! > > > > 1. The literal answer is probably not the answer the author is > > looking for. > > > > 2. `foo' and `bar' are commonly used as placeholders for arbitrary > > character strings. > > > > In XML Bible by E. Harold, page 52, the author says that FOO means > "whatever > > you want it to". Further down, on page 517, we find that > for formatting > > objects, the defacto standard prefix is "FO". > > > > Why was FOO and FO chosen instead of something less confusing? I can > > understand FO for formatting objects, but why FOO? Why not > XXX or ABC?? > > > > XSL-List info and archive: > http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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