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RE: FOO vs FO
- To: "'xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Subject: RE: [xsl] FOO vs FO
- From: "Hewko, Doug" <Doug dot Hewko at ccra-adrc dot gc dot ca>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:34:10 -0400
- Cc: "'cutlass at secure0 dot com'" <cutlass at secure0 dot com>
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Thanks! The story behind it is quite interesting! I'm very surprised that
I've never heard of it before I started to learn XML.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cutlass [mailto:cutlass@secure0.com]
> Sent: September 6, 2001 8:04 AM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: [xsl] FOO vs FO
>
>
> 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@ccra-adrc.gc.ca>
> To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
> 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??
> >
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