[xsl] History [Was: [xsl] XSL wish list - page column gap/separator line]

[Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 12 2010 11:42:38 +0000, davep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> History?
>   Sometime back in ?2001 era, this list was instrumental in parting
> xslt from (what is now) xsl-fo. Prior to this it was all XSL,
> as defined largely by James Clark.

Only the people who were in the WG at the time can really say which
factors -- politics, people, users, availability of software, or
something else -- prompted the change, but the first separate XSLT draft
was published on 21 April 1999 [1].

Regards,


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[1] http://xml.coverpages.org/xsl.html