History
XSLT is influenced by functional languages, and by text-based pattern matching languages like SNOBOL and awk. Its most direct predecessor is DSSSL, which did for SGML what XSLT does for XML. Some members of the standards committee that developed XSLT, including James Clark, had previously worked on DSSSL.
XSLT was part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) development effort of 1998–1999, a project that also produced XSL-FO and XPath. The editor of the first version was James Clark. XSLT 1.0 was published as a W3C recommendation in November 1999. After an abortive attempt to create a version 1.1 in 2001, the XSL working group joined forces with the XQuery working group to create XPath 2.0, with a richer data model and type system based on XML Schema.
The most recent version is XSLT 2.0, developed under the editorship of Michael Kay. It reached recommendation status in January 2007. As of 2010, however, XSLT 1.0 is still widely used, since 2.0 is not supported natively in web browsers or for environments like LAMP.
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