"Costello, Roger L." <costello(_at_)mitre(_dot_)org> writes:
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."
It is regrettable that XSLT is an acronym standing for XML _Stylesheet_
Language Transformations. As described above, rarely (if ever) is XSLT used
for styling. Thus, the acronym is completely misleading. This leads to my
second recommendation.
RECOMMENDATION #2
Stop treating XSLT as an acronym. It is just the name of a programming
language, just as Java is the name of a programming language.
Comments?
I don't really like calling it a program. It depends on the context. How
about calling one of these programs a transformation specification instead of
calling it a
script.
XSLT is not a general purpose language. There are sometimes reasons to
make a distinction between languages like XSLT and languages like
Haskell, say.
Kendall
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