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Today I sat down to develop my first real XSL stylesheet, using MSIE 5b2 as the previewer. Imagine my joy to discover in their documentation that they don't support <xsl:process/> or <xsl:process-children/>. Based on discussions within the WG (and I don't think this is breaking confidence), it looks like MS is implementing the parts of XSL they like, and are simply ignoring the parts that do not fit with their strategy. MS has indicated a clear preference for <xsl:for-each> and top-down models over <xsl:process> and procedural models. So that's what they've implemented. I'd like to see some indication from Microsoft that this is not the case, and that at least the transformation portion of the specification will be implemented. I can not maintain stylesheets for my documents without <xsl:process>. MS says: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working draft for XSL divides the language into two main parts: transformation and formatting semantics. This release supports the transformation part of the W3C XSL specification. Non-MS link Microsoft is tracking the W3C working draft and will be updating this implementation to match the final W3C recommendation. Given that the second sentence is false, I have no reason to believe the third. -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek> XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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