At 2012-02-08 09:46 +0000, Florent Georges wrote:
Wendell Piez wrote:
> "XSL", in fact, properly means the combination of XSLT and
> XSL-FO, even if it's also commonly used to mean XSLT without
> XSL-FO.
Even worse... Some people use it to refer to XSLT (like an
"abbreviation" of XSLT, mainly because of the usual extension
.xsl I guess).
My students tell me the confusion is because of the choice of the
namespace prefix in code they've seen ... I am often asked "Then why
isn't it <xslt:value-of>?".
Of course the very first examples of XSLT were created when XSLT was
chapter 2 of XSL. Well, it still is as a reference, but in the first
drafts, before it was split off, all of XSLT was described in the
body of chapter 2 of XSL.
Some people use it to refer to XSL-FO, as the XSL
spec actually refers to the XSLT spec, but includes (and is) the
spec body for XSL-FO. And I guess some people use it to refer to
XSL, but I rarely have the opportunity to speak about XSL as a
whole ;-)
My rule of thumb: always use either XSLT or XSL-FO, and if you
hear XSL, ask for precision.
+1
. . . . . . . . . Ken
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