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Subject: Re: [xsl] FOO vs FO From: "cutlass" <cutlass@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 13:04:03 +0100 |
FOO is from foobar, a military term which means something like Fouled Up Beyond All Belief http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3092.txt cheers, jim fuller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hewko, Doug" <Doug.Hewko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:58 PM Subject: [xsl] FOO vs FO > Does anyone know why FOO was chosen to mean anything? > > From the W3 site, in a message at > "http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/msg00613.html", someone asked > "What does foo.bar mean in CSS?". The response was: > > Ah, a puzzle! > > 1. The literal answer is probably not the answer the author is > looking for. > > 2. `foo' and `bar' are commonly used as placeholders for arbitrary > character strings. > > In XML Bible by E. Harold, page 52, the author says that FOO means "whatever > you want it to". Further down, on page 517, we find that for formatting > objects, the defacto standard prefix is "FO". > > Why was FOO and FO chosen instead of something less confusing? I can > understand FO for formatting objects, but why FOO? Why not XXX or ABC?? > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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