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Subject: Re: xsl:script
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:49:04 +0000
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Shimon,

Actually, it's "http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl" that's earlier -- it was the namespace claimed by the December 1998 Working Draft of XSL (hence the "WD"). "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" was claimed by the final Recommendation version of XSLT 1.0, which was formally accepted by W3C in November 1999.

The older namespace, like other namespaces declared by other working drafts, would be long forgotten if not for an implementation that was released in early 1999 by Microsoft in the MSXML processor. What makes matters worse for those concerned with compatibility, is that this implementation was itself (a) not complete to the draft even at that date, and (b) nevertheless contained proprietary ("experimental") extensions to the erstwhile "XSL", which were (are?) undocumented as such. The MSXML parser is still out there, even being described in several books in print, most of which take it at face value and are unaware of the conformance issues and the confusion generated. To be fair, the MSXML parser was labelled as an experimental pre-release ... but the hype machine seems to downplay that, to the extent it even understands that the package is obsolete as delivered.

Microsoft's current release, MSXML3 -- which is not bundled with the browser, being obtainable only by download -- supports both the current Recommendation and the earlier WD.

Way too much ink has been spilled trying to straighten out this issue. This is why tempers seem often to be shorter than is warranted by innocent mistakes or understandable confusion on the part of a newbie. It's as if the Pinball Club were constantly being invaded by shuffleboard players wanting to know about the rules of shuffleboard, because a large toy company was selling a shuffleboard set labelled "pinball". They may be call it pinball, but it's really shuffleboard. (They may call it "XSL", but it's not.) Unlike the Pinball Club, however, there's often money and development time riding on this.

Regards,
Wendell


At 01:23 PM 1/18/01 -0500, you wrote:
Hello!
I guess this is kind of FAQ question, but I am frustrating to
find the answer.
I tried to add <xsl:script> element to my xsl file and
got warning that for namespace "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xsl:script is not available. Then, I tried to switch to
latest version, using namespace "http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl"
and got warning "Keyword xsl:output may not be used in namespace"
I need that xsl:output tag because I am transforming to xml and
html format, depending on parameter.
Could you tell me where can I read about current namespaces,
differences and so on. I thought that latest namespace should include
everything the earlier versions had plus new stuff, but seems I am
wrong in this assumption.

Shimon

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