Personally, I avoid using the term XSL because it means different things to
different people.
* For historical reasons some people use XSL to mean XSLT;
* Microsoft historically used XSL to mean the WD-xsl language, an early
approximation to XSLT; when both languages were in use they used the terms
"XSL" and "XSLT" to distinguish them
* Some people use XSL to mean what most of us call XSL-FO, because if you
look at the XSL-FO spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/) you find that its title
is "Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)" - although when you read on, you
see that it says
<quote>
This specification defines the features and syntax for the Extensible
Stylesheet Language (XSL), a language for expressing stylesheets. It
consists of two parts:
1. a language for transforming XML documents, and
2. an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics.
</quote>
which isn't actually true, because this spec doesn't define the features and
syntax of part (1) at all; and within the rest of the XSL-FO spec, the term
"XSL" is generally used to mean what the rest of the world calls XSL-FO.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Khorasani, Houman
[mailto:Houman(_dot_)Khorasani(_at_)comverse(_dot_)com]
Sent: 10 February 2006 19:46
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Difference between XSL and XSLT
Hello,
I am having a presentation on Monday about XML, XSLT and XSD. I am
wondering what if they ask me what the difference between XSLT and XSL
is, or why we should use the one over the other...I didn't know how to
respond.
I know XSLT is a subset o XSL. But still a bit confusing to
explain why
to use XSLT rather than XSL or vice versa...
Any comment?
Thanks
Houman
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