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I think this might be the point at which we could sit back and take a look (again?) at the requirements document. I say this because I assume the requirements are agreed to (more or less) by the consortium's membership and, consequently, form the scope and intent of the specification. I hope the process has enough integrity that the requirements are a valid discussion locus. It seems to me that a lot of what is going back and forth here might either disappear or be improved in quality and relevance if we communicated in terms of the requirements. Here is the link; there is a section specific to scripting: http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-XSLReq rgrds. ...edN -----Original Message----- From: Flow Simulation [SMTP:info@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 7:18 AM To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: Re: Microsoft extensions to XSL Tyler Baker wrote: > I think the worst thing is to try and use XSL for something that it was not > suitable for. XSL is not the end-all solution to everything. I'm not so sure! To be the end-all solution to many things it needs an "escape to scripting language" as was originally proposed. If you don't have it I think you get another 4GL development tool which drops you off a cliff-edge when you are 95 percent there. Script seems to me to be a sensible and practical compromise to "get you home", e.g. to compute a total. If your stylesheet contains a very large amount of script then perhaps XSL isn't the ideal language. I hope script gets back into the spec. and I'm glad Microsoft kept it in IE5. If that dilutes the declarative purity of the language, it is a price I am willing to pay. On the subject of Microsoft: Tyler Baker wrote: >It would be nice if there was a public statement by Microsoft that they will not >work to own the XSL spec as so many people seem to fear. Microsoft have contributed to the XSL draft and have stated that they will track the spec. with IE5's XML and XSL support. I don't really see what else they can do. Personally I think XSL and XML are more of a threat to Microsoft than the other way around. Bill Ayers (BillA@xxxxxxxxxx) 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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