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At 02:02 PM 1/31/99 +0000, Mark Birbeck wrote: >This makes your case weaker Dave, I'm afraid, if you enlist Paul's >'insights'. Part of his site seems ill-informed to me - criticising XSL >for using a 'renamed JavaScript, called ECMCAScript', as if it was XSL >that renamed it!! - and part of it sort of misses the point about what >is so exciting about storing documents as XML. > >[...much about XSL and ECMAScript...] This thread(s) has proven more capable of shifting subjects than any I've seen in a while - now we have someone on the list debating the ideas of someone it's not even clear is on the list, about something that's been fought over a few thousand times on the XSL mailing list. (And I'm saying this as a long-time thread abuser. Apologies for the crazy-long subject header.) I think at this point most folks who've encountered those discussions are willing to acknowledge that reasonable people can disagree, even violently, about most anything involving XSL, especially ECMAScript and even the need for XSL, without it being a stain on the other ideas they support. These are hotly contested issues - though some people on all sides may firmly believe themselves to be taking the 'right' approach, I don't think opinions on XSL should be used to disqualify someone's opinions about other aspects of XML processing. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer / Building XML Applications (March) Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com 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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