As it turns out I was completely off my "interpretation rocker" in
regards to the XSLT/FO WD draft split having anything to do with the
current feelings towards XSLT 2.0 on Redmond campus.  While I have
gained a bit of a better understanding of things its probably best for
me to do a bit more research before I comment any further...

David, Michael,

Thanks for helping bring a much needed perspective into things!!!

Cheers :)

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On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:54:19 +0200, Oleg Tkachenko <oleg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> > Even if it had
> > been a faithful implementation of that draft, releasing an implementation
> > of a draft spec in a full non-beta release of a piece of software
> > distributed to 90% of the world's desktops was a mistake
> 
> Are you talking about XSLT 2.0 ? :)
> 
> Microsoft learnt that the hard way and that's the reason both XSLT 2 and
> XQuery are out. SQL Server will support some minimal "stable" part of
> XQuery and that's it. Moreover, as many microsofties say nowadays, they
> don't see much requests for client side declarative XML processing tools...
> 
> --
> Oleg Tkachenko
> http://blog.tkachenko.com
> Multiconn Technologies, Israel
> 
> 


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