On 22 May 2010 13:12, Costello, Roger L. <costello(_at_)mitre(_dot_)org> wrote:
Hi Folks,
Note: In the following I am just talking about XSLT. I am not talking about
XSL-FO.
XSLT is a programming language. It is used to create programs. Personally, I
never use XSLT to perform styling. When was the last time you used XSLT to
set a font color or background color? I use CSS to do styling. Thus, I come
to my first recommendation.
RECOMMENDATION #1
When you write or talk about an XSLT document, call it a program. Don't call
it a stylesheet. For example, say this: "I wrote an XSLT program to
screen-scrape Yahoo Finance." Don't say this: "I wrote an XSLT stylesheet to
screen-scrape Yahoo Finance."
I agree with the don't-call-it-a-stylesheet part, and mentioned this a
while back (seems like yesterday, but its 5 years ago!):
http://xsl.markmail.org/search/?q=stylesheet+misnomer+from%3A%22Andrew+Welch%22#query:stylesheet%20misnomer%20from%3A%22Andrew%20Welch%22+page:1+mid:alaii2zor3xzu5jh+state:results
...did you know you can use xsl:transform instead of xsl:stylesheet?
Its way too late now, all you can really do is try and avoid the
"stylehsheet" word yourself (but its harder than you think :)
--
Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com
Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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