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Christopher R. Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...  Some people wanted to use XSLT just for
> transforms, and didn't want to mention "stylesheet" at all.  At the same
> time, XSLT was developed in support of a stylesheet language, and intended
> primarily for use as same, and getting rid of the word "stylesheet" would
> have been politically incorrect for a number of reasons.  The programmers
> on the WG agreed that supporting two names for the same thing is trivial,
> and someone explaining the language can mention the synonym once (if at
> all) and use the name of their choice consistently in discussions and
> examples.

<WildGuess>
Is this also why disable-output-escaping is defined in the spec, but XSLT
processors are not required to implement it?
</WildGuess>

Have fun,

    Oren Ben-Kiki


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