.xsl or .xslt?

[Peter Gloor]

What's the difference between the file type extensions .xsl and .xslt? When
to use what?

So far I always created XSLT files thru the appropriate menues in VS.NET.
They automatically become .xslt files. But today I've got some externally
created XSL transformation stylesheets with filetype .xsl. Now I'm confused,
because in all the code examples I coud found the file type .xsl is used.

Except the differnt icon I cannot see any differnce in the behaviour between
the two file types.
Do I need to care, or are they really the same?

Peter

 

[Shakir Hussain]

Peter.

XSL is a style sheet language. XSL specifies the styling of an XML document.
XSL consists of three parts:

a)XSLT - A language for transforming XML documents
b)XPath - A language for defining parts of an XML document
c)XSL-FO - A language for formatting XML documents

 

[Anders Borum]

Hello!

I think naming them .xslt or .xsl would make little difference, as the
programmer (or consumer) would be quite aware of the content of the
documents. As mentioned by Shakir Hussain, the difference between Xsl and
Xslt is that Xsl is a stylesheet markup language and Xslt is an umbrella of
three technologies (XPath, Xml and Xsl afaik - I might look into Michael
Kays Xslt 2nd. Edition reference, but I think I've got it .