RE: Someone bashing XSL

Not having read my mail over the weekend, I got curious this morning and
have been trying to access www.xmlscript.org, but no luck. I wonder if this
is a coincidence ... ? 


It wasn't me, I swear :-) 

-----Original Message-----
From: James Tauber [mailto:jtauber@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 7:26 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Someone bashing XSL


> >Michael's quote aside, I actually object to Decisionsoft's
misrepresentation
> >of XSL on that page (http://www.xmlscript.org/xsl.html) (and of DSSSL).
> >
> >Oh well :-)
>
> I hate to continue this mire, but really have to wonder what you're all so
> upset about.

It just annoyed me that Decisionsoft doesn't seem to know much about XSL.
Their examples are incorrect or misleading and they make comments like DSSSL
being "completely unusable" when this is blatantly untrue.

> The white paper isn't spectacular, nor is the page, but I
> sincerely hope the folks at xmlscript.org didn't knuckle under to a group
> of screaming XSL partisans.  Their XML-based scripting language takes a
> very different approach from that of XSL, and highlighting the differences
> seems reasonable.

But their arguments are straw man. The XSL they are highlighting differences
between doesn't exist. *That* is my problem.

But as the smiley in my previous post suggests, I'm not taking this
particularly seriously. Decisionsoft aren't competing with anything I do, so
I don't really care. Like Didier, I got a bit of a laugh.

James


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