Re: [xsl] Basic: Diferrence between XSL and XSLT

Subject: Re: [xsl] Basic: Diferrence between XSL and XSLT
From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:20:27 -0400
[Paulo Henrique S. Bermejo]
>
> I would like to know what the difference between XSL and XSLT is?
>

Depending on what you mean, it's either like the difference between Italian
and Spanish, or like the difference between Cheddar cheese and hard cheeses
.

If you mean the obsolete Microsoft dialect, it's the first.  They can
understand some of what the other says, but the details are too different
for them to really be interchangable.

If you mean the XSL, the W3C Proposed Recommendation, then it's the second.
XSL uses XSLT as part of what it does.  Its job is to create displays from
XML files, whether in HTML, PDF, or whatever.  Part of this is transforming
the source file into another XML file - that's the XSLT part - and part of
it is specifying how to display the document - that's the job of Formatting
Objects (FOs), which are specified in the XSL PR.

Cheers,

Tom P


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