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Plaudits to Keith for his efforts to support XSLT within Mozilla. In the various discussions of levels of support in IE5 and Mozilla, I didn't notice any mention of last year's opposition to supporting XSL within the Mozilla development team. See Michael Leventhal's articles "XSL Considered Harmful", in http://www.xml.com/pub/1999/05/xsl/xslconsidered_1.html , which asserted that XSLT was an ugly, unusable language, confusing and delaying the adoption of CSS, and that anything it could be used for could be better done with procedural access to the DOM and use of CSS. The article implied (but did not state) that Leventhal and his "crack mozilla development team" would not be in a hurry to implement XSL for Mozilla. It would be silly to expect that people donating their time and effort would swallow their principled objections and build something they had such distaste for. Note that a search today of the mozilla.org site failed to turn up any mention of Leventhal, so perhaps the climate has changed among current developers there. It would be interesting to hear more about this history. Jeff XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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