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RE: Hyphens in XSLT element names
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- Subject: RE: Hyphens in XSLT element names
- From: "John E. Simpson" <simpson at polaris dot net>
- Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 09:15:08 -0500
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
At 10:03 AM 2/3/2000 +0000, Kay Michael wrote:
> > So, I was hoping one of the XSLT
> > authors/contributors could tell me why they chose to use hyphens in
> > their element names?
>
>I expect their first programming language was COBOL and they were feeling
>nostalgic.
Heh.
Actually, I'd figured it was a holdover from the
XSL-shall-be-compatible-with-CSS rule -- since CSS properties are
hyphenated. Even though XSL*T* in theory needn't be compatible with CSS
(unlike FOs, where I guess it's more of an issue), presumably they wanted
the transformational side's element naming convention to be consistent with
the FO side.
Interesting question, though.
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