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So what. XSL is a ***>>>FUTURE<<<***!!! My thoughts exactly :>). I am using a simple script and the DOM to transform XML to HTMLon the fly, and style it with a CSS style sheet. Details available privately if any one wants them, but I'm under a NDA until the official release. Frank Frank Boumphrey Style and XML information http://www.hypermedic.com/style/index.htm Author: Professional Style Sheets for HTML and XML http:// www.wrox.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...> To: Frank Boumphrey <Bckman@i...>; <xml-dev@i...> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 8:38 PM Subject: Re: MSIE5 Beta 2 + XML >At 08:34 PM 10/14/98 -0400, Frank Boumphrey wrote: >>I've been hacking the beta for some time now, here's what you can expect. >>Good support for XSL, > >So what. XSL is a ***>>>FUTURE<<<***!!! I want Microsoft and Netscape >to first buckle down and implement 100% support for the 21-month old >totally stable well-understood CSS 1 spec. The XSL stuff is cool >but MS is running a *big* risk of people going ahead and implementing >something that may be real different from where XSL ends up next >summer. I cannot in good conscience recommend to anyone that they >implement anything mission-critical based on XSL, and I'm one of >the world's biggest supporters of the XSL work. > >>99% support for the DOM recomendation! > >Unreservedly good news. > >>What this means essentially is that it is now possible to display XML over >>the web. > >Almost. So close you can taste it. But we need for NS to get their >act together so you don't have to be browser-specific to achieve this. >And we also need these guys to take some of the time they're investing in >standards of the future and put them into finishing the job on standards >of the present. -Tim > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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