RE: IE5-- any use?

The IE5 implementation of XSL conforms (to a certain extent) to the December
98 draft of XSL. There have been three or four since then, and the language
has been changed almost beyond recognition. In addition, Microsoft's version
has quite a few extensions to the original spec which were not implemented
by the Working Group. Microsoft has said that they are not going to release
another version until the spec is finalised. When they do it will not be a
pretty upgrade, given so much has changed.

If you *really* have to continue using the IE5 version, then the MS site is
the best place for resources - http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml. This is
actually a very good site - one of MS's better ones, and you should be able
to find the answers to most things (or at least pointers in the right
direction).

However, I would recommend you used another product (ie. one that conforms
to the October WD of XSLT), ie:

XT (by James Clark) (http://www.jclark.com/xml/xt)
IBM's LotusXSL (somewhere off http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com), 

or one of the others recommended on the list. Since almost everyone on the
list uses the latest version of XSLT, you will find that most of the
functionality discussed on this list does not work in IE5's XSL parser.

Hope this clarifies things,

Ben Robb

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexandra Morgan [mailto:lexalex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 09 November 1999 17:53
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: IE5-- any use?
> 
> 
> I'm new to XSL. I'm reading the XSLT spec dated 19991008, and 
> trying things out in IE5. Either I'm really bad at 
> interpreting what the spec is trying to say, or IE5 doesn't 
> match the spec at all. Here are a few discrepencies between 
> what I think the spec means and IE5's behaviour:
> 
> - "mode" attribute in templates always ignored
> - format-number syntax different 
> - built-in template rule doesn't do apply-templates
> 
> What do you think-- do I just not have the hang of things, 
> or, in fact, does the spec have no relationship to what IE5 
> will actually do?
> 
> Note: I'm not trying to start some big debate on the pros and 
> cons of Microsoft; I just want to know when to give up on 
> this particular path. Let's keep the politics out of this, 
> shall we... :)
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
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