Re: Microsoft XSL and Conformance

The XSLT 1.0 Spec is also careful to provide the
necessary mechanisms to built robust, portable
XSLT stylesheets, even in the face of cool extensions.

The <xsl:fallback> and element-available('qname') and
function-available('qname') let you have good, proactive
control as to what should happen if an extension on 
which you depend is not available.

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Steve Muench, Consulting Product Manager & XML Evangelist
Business Components for Java Development Team

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: Microsoft XSL and Conformance


| Steven Livingstone wrote:
| 
| >
| > Anyway, from what I understand, most, if not all, products mentioned on
| this
| > list have their own extensions and are any 100% fully compliant?
| >
| >
| 
|     The XSLT extension mechanism is outlined in the spec and an example of
| one was provided with James Clark's 11/99 XT implementation ... several of
| the implementations have a few nits here and there, what we are talking
| about is substantial compliance (modulo bugs) with full compliance as bugs
| are reported and fixed.
| 
|     In summary, XSLT extensions, provided through the extension mechanism,
| do not prevent compliance with http://www.w3.org/tr/xslt .
| 
| Jonathan Borden
| 
| 
| 
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