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Re: [xsl] XSL v. XSLT

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On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 09:04:52PM -0800, Ross Lambert wrote:

> XSL was--and is--a "catch all" for everything having to do with transforming
> XML from one form to another. As things evolved, it grew in three strands, a
> transformation language (XSLT), a searching language (XPath), and XSL to
> specify output styles. It gets a little fuzzy because you can't really do
> one thing without help from the others.

You'll also find people using the term "XSL" (incorrectly) to refer to
the transformation language Microsoft implemented in IE5, which was a
subset of an early draft of XSL (before XSLT existed).

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