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Re: Is XSLT the right name?
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Is XSLT the right name?
- From: Uche Ogbuji <uche dot ogbuji at fourthought dot com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 22:06:10 -0700
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> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 bryan.s.schnabel@exgate.tek.com wrote:
> > As I consider the tasks I perform using XSL and XSLT, I don't think of them
> > as "stylesheet" tasks. I think of them as "transformation" tasks.
>
> But stylesheets *are* transformations...they transform
> information from one format to another.
Yes. All stylesheets are transforms, but not all transforms are stylesheets.
The problem is that much of the use of XSLT I see, like the XML -> flat text
transform, is in no way a "stylesheet".
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Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant
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