Subject: Re: [xsl] Anybody know when "transform" became the term for the type ofthing XSLT does? From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:29:40 +0100 |
Once some non-technical people I worked with referred to them as 'xsl scripts' which was awful and something I had to put right. why? why is perl a script and xslt not? the division between scripting languages and other languages seems blury at best. Do other programming languages have this problem. What do you call a file full of C or java, or (coming closer to home) lisp? Personally I always use xsl:stylesheet (because I just copy the boilerplate from somewhere else) and I usually call the thing a "stylesheet" or a "file". I note that the XSLT2 spec calls things modules quite often (perhaps pointing the way towards the issues raised in the recent thread on separate compilation) although it always prefixes "module" with "stylesheet" so isn't really suggesting xslt module as an alternative to xslt stylesheet. http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#dt-stylesheet-module [Definition: A stylesheet consists of one or more stylesheet modules, each one forming all or part of an XML document.] David ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
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