IE5-- any use?

I'm new to XSL. I'm reading the XSLT spec dated 19991008, and trying things out in IE5. Either I'm really bad at interpreting what the spec is trying to say, or IE5 doesn't match the spec at all. Here are a few discrepencies between what I think the spec means and IE5's behaviour:

- "mode" attribute in templates always ignored
- format-number syntax different 
- built-in template rule doesn't do apply-templates

What do you think-- do I just not have the hang of things, or, in fact, does the spec have no relationship to what IE5 will actually do?

Note: I'm not trying to start some big debate on the pros and cons of Microsoft; I just want to know when to give up on this particular path. Let's keep the politics out of this, shall we... :)

Alex



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