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Much as I hate to point out its flaws, remember that the Microsoft XSL Processor is a "technology preview", fit for prototyping and possible deployment on a limited scale, but we don't consider it to be robust enough, performant enough, or flexible enough for mission-critical applications. It has provided us valuable feedback on both the XSL language and the systems which have a need for a technology like XSL. Thank you for your enthusiasm, I have been getting similar responses from many who have experimented with XSL. This makes me hopeful that a solid and flexible implementation would be welcomed by the web community. The goal in my opinion is to define a minimal XSL 1.0 to enable rapid adoption of XSL. Keeping it simple and tightly tied in with other W3C standards, including CSS, will help ensure that implementations can keep up and be deployed widely. Biting off too much at this point would be self defeating. I would hope that XSL could complement CSS rather than being an either/or choice. -----Original Message----- From: Lisa Pease [mailto:lisap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, May 15, 1998 3:46 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: XML + (XSL | CSS) ? Intranet users who have standardized on IE4 (and we do business with several large companies for whom this is the case) can use XSL now, and nothing CSS has can meet those needs, yet. I'm as eager as the next person to see widespread and rapid implementation of W3C Recs. Experience has taught me this is never as fast a process as I would like, and so I'm not averse to using whatever best suits my needs that is available now. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Friday, May 15, 1998 2:17 PM Subject: Re: XML + (XSL | CSS) ? >Lisa Pease wrote: >> >> I can do things today in XSL that I can't yet do in CSS, despite full >> Recommendation status of both CSS1 and 2. > >Sort of. Hardly anyone is going to put anything on the Web that depends on >an Active-X control, so you can't really render XSL directly in any >browsers. What you can do is convert XML documents to HTML, but you could >always do that with Python, Jade, Java, Perl, etc. XSL's real value will >be as a ubiquitous standard that you can depend upon. Right now it's just >another batch processor in a crowded field. > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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