Stump the Interview Candidate: XSL Questions

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jack_indigo
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Stump the Interview Candidate: XSL Questions

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I've been studying for my tough technical interview on a variety of topics, but this time I need to read up on XSL, XSLT, XPath, and XSL-FO. Go ahead and try and stump me with your tough questions, and perhaps I can see how good I am at beating this. Phew, this material is tough!

Also, XSL is a little strange in its naming because XSL means two things:

- Is the container of the XSLT, XPath, and XSL-FO technologies
- XSL-FO was officially named XSL by the W3C back in October 2001 (SOURCE)

So, by that, we now know this:

1. XSLT refers to transforming XML into another format.

2. XPath refers to a technology used inside of XSLT (also as a library in your programming language), to extract a portion of XML, usually to apply some transformation to it.

3. XSL (no longer called XSL-FO after Oct 2001) refers to the formatting of XML, not the transforming of it. And this includes new things called Pages, Regions, Block Areas, Line Areas, and Inline Areas.

And if I'm wrong above, please do correct me.
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