Hi Jarkko. This thread from xml-dev might point
you in the right direction in terms of the history of
XSLT.

http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200210/msg01610.html

Regards
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jarkko
> Moilanen
> Sent: Friday, 22 November 2002 6:34 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  The beginning of xslt?
>
>
>
>
> How did the development of xslt begin? Is there a person who said that something
> like this would be needed? I came to this question, while I was doing some
> research about xslt development.
>
> Users	<--------->   xslt language
> ^ ^		    ^	^
> |  \		   /	|
> |   \	__________/	|
> |    \_/______		|
> |     /	      \	  	|
> |    /	       \  	|
> |   /		\	|
> |  /		 \	|
> v v		  v	v
> Processors <---->  xsl-list/w3c
>
> In here the users need the language (arrow between Users and xslt language)
> and also take part in the development of next version (arrow to xsl-list/w3c).
> Also the users get help from the list to their problems in xslt. Users
> need the processors to ecxecute xslt.
>
> Processor developers are restricted (partly) about the language, or to be
> more specific, restricted about the specification. (arrow between Processors and xsl-list)
> Developers offer programs to ecxecute xslt.(arrow between Users and Processors)
>
> Xsl-list/w3c is intrested about the language, ie. specification. Also distributes
> help to users and offers limits and possibilities in the form of spesification.
>
>
> In this framework if the xslt language "disappears", the situation is the
> same as the development of xslt was in the beginning.The situation then also means that there can not
> be any users or processors. So where came the idea about xslt in the beginning, from
> w3c?
>
> If the Processors "disappear", situationis that there can not be any users,
> but the language and xsl-list/w3c can excist.
>
> If there is no xsl-list/w3c, nothing else can excist. (in the framework of xslt)
>
> The main question is still the same:
> where came the idea about xslt in the beginning?
>
> And how did we end up to this situation,as the figure above shows?
>
> Cheers,
> Jarkko
>
>
>
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