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Re: Congrats Jon Bosak and Tim Bray

• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@i...
• Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:59:53 -0700

At 04:38 PM 4/13/99 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>Nice article, though once again CSS is ignored and the strange new creature
>known as XSL is promoted as "The standard now being developed for XML
>stylesheets", a misuse of the definite article 'the'.

Actually, I think this criticism is justified; the article would have
been better had we pointed out that there is already a perfectly-good
stylesheet language in place (if imperfectly implemented).  I can say
that the editorial process was somewhat fraught and space at a definite
premium, but still.  This is particularly ironic since I have been using 
every other pulpit at my disposal (cf xml.com, conference keynotes, 
webstandards.org) more or less continuously for the last year to call 
for conformant XML+CSS+DOM now, and leave the future to the future.  
Having said that, I think that the quoted phrase is a reasonably 
accurate description of XSL. -Tim

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