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RE: Netscape support for XSL Stylesheets

Subject: RE: Netscape support for XSL Stylesheets
From: "McKisson, Shawn" <mckisss@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:46:11 -0500
mckisson
Oops, I cut and pasted the wrong highlight. Sorry.
Here is what I meant to post:

For XML formatting, why is Gecko supporting CSS rather than XSL in the first
release? 

Simple: CSS1 is a finished, fully adopted, and mature two-year-old standard;
XSL isn't done yet. As Tim Bray, the coeditor of the XML standard, has
written: 

"Microsoft's XSL efforts are very impressive, but (readers will pardon us
being something of a broken record on this subject) XSL is in the future. We
are convinced that from the point of view of the largest number of users,
the most important things that Microsoft could do in IE 5 would be: 
1.Ensure interoperability of XML and stylesheets with other browsers, and 
2.Build in conformance to existing, stable, well-understood standards such
as CSS 1.0. 

Innovation, of course, is fine and necessary, and we salute Microsoft's
leadership in this area. But innovation needs to be built on a foundation of
interoperability and playing by existing well-understood rules." He further
adds that "It seems obvious to me that for anyone who wants to deploy XML in
production mode right now, XML + CSS is the way to go ..." ("Microsoft
Outlines XML Support in IE5 Beta 2" at 
http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/98/10/ie5-2.html)


-----Original Message-----
From: John E. Simpson [mailto:simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 2:40 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Netscape support for XSL Stylesheets


At 02:43 PM 8/13/1999 -0400, Keith Visco wrote:
>There are people working on this at Mozilla. They have my current C++
>source code for MITRE's TransforMiiX (TM) XSL processor, and are
>evaluating it for inclusion into the Mozilla project. This is not
>official, and it will be up to them if they decide to use it or not.

Thanks, Keith -- if they go with it, this is *very* good news!

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