Ian T said:
So, what kind of mentality would ever stumble across the 'T'
part of what was
to become XSLT and consider that it remotely has a place in a
stylesheet
language, which is after all, concerned with making your
fonts bold and other
nice harmless endevours. Surely devils invaded and changed
all the plans
overnight, one halloween, and nobody noticed the next morning
and simply
carried on with the perverted course of style.
I used/coined the phrase bsop for this (and other bits :-).
Brain the size of a planet.
It does actually make sense though. Why should I include the
toc if I could compute it?
Why should I number manually if I can compute it.
Put a real brain on that kinda stuff and the T of XSLT is
associated with 'styling'.
I really take issue with the use of 'style' in the name of
XSLT.
History. There's nearly 30 years behind all this 'stylesheet' stuff now.
Regards DaveP.
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