RE: xsl:sort in old MSXML

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Subject: RE: xsl:sort in old MSXML
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 14:27:43 -0400

Claudio,

Thanks for persisting with this thread. You are raising issues that seem to be a barrier to understanding for many.

At 01:37 PM 7/2/2003, you wrote:

It happens that while reading the incoming msgs in the list, I wondered why, if a standard was on, while all so many people were having so much trouble deploying (me too) XML/XSLT transactions. For those as you guys, who have really clear all these flavours maybe looks pretty easy, but it doesn't look so for the rest.

No, it doesn't. It looks easy to us since we've chosen, for different reasons, to stick to the "straight and narrow", to place standards-compliance and vendor-neutrality first and fancy functionalities, second, even if that means waiting for things such as client-side processing. (If the cutting edge is proprietary, I'm less interested in it. That doesn't mean I want to discourage it, as innovations are often proprietary! It just means that I'm going to be inclined to let more heavily-capitalized ventures take the lead until the new thing becomes standard.) But as XSLT evolves and gets implemented within various frameworks, newcomers naturally have questions about how it all fits together. Unfortunately, there's no single right answer to this -- often, they should really be asking the vendors of their tools and toolsets how *they* mean it to fit together. On the XSL-List, precisely because we are vendor-agnostic, you are liable to get more generalized answers about how they fit in theory, not particular answers to how they do or should fit for you.

Cheers,
Wendell


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XML architectures [was Re: xsl:sort in old MSXML], (continued)
- Claudio Russo - Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:20:42 -0400 (EDT)
- Claudio Russo - Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:36:16 -0400 (EDT)
  - Didier PH Martin - Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:04:11 -0400 (EDT)
  - Wendell Piez - Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:34:10 -0400 (EDT) <=
- Claudio Russo - Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:39:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Claudio Russo - Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:45:29 -0400 (EDT)
  - Wendell Piez - Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:34:10 -0400 (EDT)
- Claudio Russo - Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:54:13 -0400 (EDT)

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