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Re: Stylesheet vs. Transform
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- Subject: Re: Stylesheet vs. Transform
- From: Warren Hedley <w dot hedley at auckland dot ac dot nz>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:35:50 -0400
- Organization: Department of Engineering Science, The University of Auckland
- References: <A0AEC2C4E61AD311875700104B7223D650EFDC@exmail05.eecs.usma.edu>
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"Mabry, F. DR EECS" wrote:
>
> (1) When taking any XML material (from one or more XML sources) and
> developing a single web page (including a frameset) rendering (either as a
> response for a dynamic page) or as the HTM or HTML result to be stored for a
> static response, use the term "stylesheet" in XSLT.
I'd tend to say that a stylesheet is something that is used on the client
to provide rendering information not available in the main document (although
this is probably a CSS-centric view). Thus, in the combination of XML and XSL
in IE5, the XSL can be thought of as a stylesheet.
However, if XSLT is used on the server-side to perform transformations, then
they are just that.
This idea is reinforced by the separation of XSLT and XSL-FO - FO specifies
a visual representation of some data, XSLT by itself doesn't.
Having said that, the root element of all of my XSLT docs is <xsl:stylesheet>!
My 0.02 NZD.
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Warren Hedley
Department of Engineering Science
Auckland University
New Zealand
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