RE: [xsl] Anybody know when "transform" became the term for the type ofthing XSLT does?

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A quick google finds several 1996 papers

http://xml.coverpages.org/lecluseSGML96.html

http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~dmck/Papers/sgml-europe-96/workshop-others.html

and a discussion list posting

http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9603&L=tei-l&F=&S=&P=186
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and a couple of marketing announcements

http://www.seyboldreports.com/Bulletin/subs/vol1/BUL0127.HTM

all of which use the term "SGML transformation" as if it is a familiar term.

There's what appears to be a 1995 DSSSL spec at

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wilensky/CS294/dsssl/html/index.htm

Section 6.3.1 is called "The Transformation Language", section 6.3.2 "The
Style Language".



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Paul O'Donnell [mailto:daniel.odonnell@xxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 13 June 2005 17:26
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> Subject: [xsl] Anybody know when "transform" became the term 
> for the type ofthing XSLT does?
> 
> Hi everybody. As part of an article, I'm talking about the immediate
> prehistory of XSL. I'd be interested in knowing when transformations
> became known as transformations. I assume as part of the 
> DSSSL work? Or
> is it a scripting language term? Any ideas? Rather than an OED-style
> hunt for the earliest occurrence, I'm really looking for a 
> sense of when
> extract and markup translation (is that a good definition?) 
> began to be
> commonly referred to as a "transformation".
> -dan
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