Thanks Mike for the answer.. I have the same argument
in mind as Alex explained. I guess we have two syntax
(xsl:stylesheet and xsl:transform) for aesthetical
reasons.. When we wish to use XSLT to add styling
information to XML (lets say producing HTML/CSS or
XSL-FO), then xsl:stylesheet seems right. While when
we use XSLT to do a transformation from XML to another
XML (there is no styling involved) , we may use
xsl:transform ..
But most of the time we use xsl:stylesheet (at least I
do!) ..
Regards,
Mukul
--- Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com> wrote:
The XSLT spec says (both 1.0 and 2.0) that
xsl:stylesheet and xsl:transform are 100%
identical.
Everything that applies to xsl:stylesheet is
exactly
identical to that applies to xsl:transform .. What
is
the reason for keeping two syntaxes for the same
purpose? Is there some technical reason for this,
or
there is some other reason?
I don't know the details of how this decision was
originally made, but you
can be reasonably sure that when a committee decides
to allow two different
ways of saying the same thing, it's because they
spent a long time arguing
about it and it was getting late in the day and
no-one wanted to give way
and there were other more important things on the
agenda.
Clearly the difference reflects a difference of view
about the primary
purpose of XSLT, whether it is primarily a
transformation language or
primarily a stylesheet language.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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