XSL acronym ambiguity

James and Steve,

I forwarded such a note to some XSL WG members a few
months ago, and cannot now determine whether the following
matter is something that:

a) has slipped through the cracks
b) the XSL WG elects not to resolve, preferring ambiguity
c) the XSL WG wants to resolve but can't, for lack of consensus
d  is to be resolved by some entity other than the XSL WG
e) explained otherwise (...)

Namely, we still don't know whether "XSL" is determinative
for any particular phrase, or for several.

To wit:

As of 1999-01-06,

http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl
has "Extensible Stylesheet Language"

but:

http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
has "Extensible Style Language (XSL)"

while:

http://www.w3.org/Style/Activity
has "Extensible Style Sheets Language (XSL)"
as well as "XSL - the Extensible Style Language"

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Sorry to pester you with such a minor point.

My own feeling (OK, you didn't ask!) is that the "XSL"
effort under the name "style" covers too much ground,
since "style" would have to do with rendition, while
many other kinds of processing semantics ("behaviors")
including queries and links don't feel to me like they
are a matter of "style" in any fundamental/obvious sense.

Any chance that this will get solved soon?

Thanks to each of you for the extraordinary (difficult,
time-consuming) effort you have given to bring XSL to
maturity.

Best wishes for 1999.

Robin Cover

Received on Wednesday, 6 January 1999 12:03:49 UTC