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>If a website has a policy that its documents must be standards-conformant, >then the fact that IE only supports text/xsl effectively prevents that >website from using client-side XML. That seems pretty serious to me. Well, that's a tautology. If I say, "lack of application/xml+xslt doesn't seem to be hurting anyone", and you reply "but it hurts the people who need to use application/xml+xslt", then you have me beat. How could I argue with that? But let's not make it just an IE issue. It would be more accurate to say that if a website had a policy that said they cannot use "text/xsl", they would not be able to use client-side XSLT in *any* web browser. This would be a fairly counter-productive policy, I think, if client-side XSLT was a goal. And this especially when we are talking about a "should" and in the case of application/xml+xslt, a "may". Again, I agree that the goal should be for browser vendors to support the mime type that eventually gets finalized. Please don't take what I am saying as negating the importance of sticking to published conventions. >While we're on the subject of the xml-stylesheet PI, I'm still hoping that >someday IE will support multiple stylesheets and provide the user with a >menu to select between them. You have probably seen the Chris Bayes tool that does this, right? I'll forward on the suggestion...
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