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RE: Quantifying MSXML3 support for XSLT

Subject: RE: Quantifying MSXML3 support for XSLT
From: "Paulo Gaspar" <paulo.gaspar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 00:02:16 +0200
RE: Quantifying MSXML3 support for XSLT
I couldn't agree more with Mike.

Have fun,

Paulo Gaspar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mike Brown
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 07:13
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Quantifying MSXML3 support for XSLT
>
> 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 superseded the last major release, then you can't pack up the old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/
>
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