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Joshua Allen wrote: > With each release of the MSXML tool, we also provide > a list of issues that we know to exist. See > http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/xml/general/msxml_buglist.asp > for the latest. It's not as pretty as the VBXML > chart, but does contain relevant information. Given the preponderance of XSL newbies whose first posts to this list indicate that they are using the IE5/MSXML2.0 bundle and have *no* idea that it is almost completely obsolete, and given the frustration and sarcasm they elicit, I not-so-humbly suggest that you make a better effort on the MSDN web site to inform them of their situation and to encourage them to catch up with the rest of the XSLT development community. Calling the latest releases "previews" only exacerbates this situation, because, aside from dodging support issues, if you haven't officially superseded the last major release, then you can't pack up the old documentation and put it in a historical archive. So all these people are left to think they should go on writing things like author[last-name $ige$ "M"], not using xsl:copy-of, xsl:output, xsl:param, xsl:include, named templates, or pretty much every XPath function, etc., and wondering why they don't see the results other people get when using different namespaces or not explicitly writing the built-in templates, - Mike ____________________________________________________________________ Mike J. Brown, software engineer at My XML/XSL resources: webb.net in Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.skew.org/xml/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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