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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 superseded the last major release, then you can't pack up the old 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/ > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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