RE: killing xslt

{"ASP.NET 2.0 is a phenomenal product. Many 
of us believe that one of
our key XSLT scenarios, HTML generation, 
will be greatly diminished with
the ease in which an ASP.NET solution can be 
developed. There will
still be cases for XSLT on a web server, 
however this will be reduced in
time."

I think we can finally say that we have 
found the core reason behind the
decision to drop support for XSLT 2.0 - It 
competes with ASP and has
been doing so since day one}

Actually I don't think it's that xslt 
competes with asp.net, but rather that xslt 
allows one to build solutions in such a way 
that porting the solution to another 
platform becomes significantly easier. not 
something you want going on, especially when 
your server is already taking a beating in 
the market.