Re: [xml-dev] XSL and related specifications

[Tony Graham <tgraham@antenna.co.jp>]

On 21/04/2023 00:03, l@tlo wrote:
...
> What needs to be changed is
...
> > - XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)
> is now just called "XSL" (as the link seems to indicate).
The reverse, actually.  It's the original "XSL" that might as well now
be called just "XSL-FO".

As Norm said on the 14th:

   Originally, the “Extensible Style Language” was a
   transformation part and an XML vocabulary for defining
   layout.

The transformation part was broken out as XSLT but is still conceptually
part of XSL.  Chapter 2, XSL Transformation, of the XSL 1.1
Recommendation [1] includes:

   The Tree Construction is described in "XSL Transformations"
   [XSLT].

and:

   The provisions in "XSL Transformations" form an integral part
   of this Recommendation and are considered normative.

The XSL Recommendation didn't let go of the idea that XSL is both
transformation and formatting, but, in practice, people read the XSL
spec to find out about the formatting objects, not to find out about
transformations.

Regards,


Tony Graham.
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Senior Architect
XML Division
Antenna House, Inc.
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Skerries, Ireland
tgraham@antenna.co.jp


[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#d0e386