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RE: XSL, XSLT terminology -- do you know this stuff well?
Subject:RE: XSL, XSLT terminology -- do you know this stuff well? From:"France Baril" <France -dot- Baril -at- ixiasoft -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 10 May 2004 13:20:22 -0400
I got the following info at this adress www.w3schools.com
XSL - More Than a Style Sheet Language
XSL consists of three parts:
* XSLT is a language for transforming XML documents
* XPath is a language for defining parts of an XML document
* XSL-FO is a language for formatting XML documents
XSLT - XSL Transformations
XSLT is the most important part of the XSL Standards. It is the part of XSL that is used to transform an XML document into another XML document, or another type of document that is recognized by a browser, like HTML and XHTML. Normally XSLT does this by transforming each XML element into an (X)HTML element.
XSLT can also add new elements into the output file, or remove elements. It can rearrange and sort elements, and test and make decisions about which elements to display, and a lot more.
A common way to describe the transformation process is to say that XSLT transforms an XML source tree into an XML result tree.
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From: Jon Jacob Jinglehymerschmidt [mailto:techwritersf -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Fri 5/7/2004 4:00 PM
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Subject: XSL, XSLT terminology -- do you know this stuff well?
I'm unclear on exactly the relationship between the
terms XSL and XSLT. Can someone help? I've checked the
W3C.org site and it's still unclear to me.
For context, we definitely are using XSLT, which is in
the "family" of XSL. (see http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/) Also, the files in
question for our product always end in ".xsl".
1) When if ever would I use a phrase like "in the XSL
files"
2) When if ever would I use a phrase like "in the XSLT
files"
3) When if ever would I use a phrase like "the XSL
template"
4) When if ever would I use a phrase like "the XSLT
template"
5) When if ever would I use a phrase like "the XSL
code"
6) When if ever would I use a phrase like "the XSLT
code"
Thanks for any help! Also, if you can point me to
official documents (W3C or otherwise) that clarify
this, that'd be great in case someone at work
disagrees with me. :-)
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