Re: [xsl] FOO vs FO

["cutlass" <cutlass@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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??
>
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