RE: Hyphens in XSLT element names

["John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:03 AM 2/3/2000 +0000, Kay Michael wrote:
> > So, I was hoping one of the XSLT
> > authors/contributors could tell me why they chose to use hyphens in
> > their element names?
>
> I expect their first programming language was COBOL and they were feeling
> nostalgic.

Heh.

Actually, I'd figured it was a holdover from the 
XSL-shall-be-compatible-with-CSS rule -- since CSS properties are 
hyphenated. Even though XSL*T* in theory needn't be compatible with CSS 
(unlike FOs, where I guess it's more of an issue), presumably they wanted 
the transformational side's element naming convention to be consistent with 
the FO side.

Interesting question, though.

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