Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xml-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Why is there an "S" in XSLT? [Thread Next] Re: [xml-dev] Why is there an "S" in XSLT?To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@-----.---> Date: 5/19/2008 3:02:00 PM 2008/5/19 Costello, Roger L. <costello@m...>: > The niche that XSLT occupies is the "T" part - transforming XML > documents (i.e. tearing an XML document apart, rearranging its parts, > merging parts, and some processing of the data). > > Shouldn't it really be called XLT (XML Language for Transformations)? It's historical, a bit like calling them "stylesheets". A shame really as the name carries connotations of a lightweight trivial language when obviously it's so much more than that. Sometimes I hear people call them "xsl scripts" which annoys me too. I think we've tried and failed to move away from the name "stylesheets" in the past but sadly it might be too late now... perhaps if we all use xsl:transform instead of xsl:stylesheet and only ever say "transforms" for xslt (leaving "stylesheets" for css and "scripts" for javascript) it will get better. -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/ | ||||||
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