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- From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@lexica.net>
- To: 'XML-Dev Mailing list' <xml-dev@xml.org>
- Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:48:12 -0800
At 14:46 19-11-2000 -0800, Joshua Allen wrote:
>This is a bit of an exaggeration. XSL and XSLT were different activities,
>and XSLT *was* primarily directed at transformation.
Er? XSL was originally a monolithic draft, including facility for
transforming a semantic document into presentational directives. When XSLT
was split into its own specification, the intent of the XSL Working Group
was made *very* clear that while it had other applications, the driving
purpose of XSLT was to support transformations for styling, specifically
that features that interfered with incremental rendering or
side-effect-free-ness were not desirable. (We ended up with some anyway,
but that's another story.)
-Chris
not speaking for the XSL WG
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