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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] XSL history (was RE: XSL Sites)
 I'm editorializing a bit, so alternate viewpoints are encouraged. I thought Matt's potted history was excellent, except for one detail ... I think it arguable that the split of XSLT from XSL proper was motivated primarily by the MS implementation. That was a big part of it, but as you remember MS's was not the only implementation of early drafts. (There was also XT and one or two others in Java, plus that interesting package InDelv, etc. etc.) The whole community was discovering how useful the transformation part was even without the FOs (targetting HTML). A number of early adopters were quite outspoken on this issue, on XSL-List, sometimes with lengthy arguments. Check out the list archive. Now, the completion and finalization of XSLT into a Rec might well have been motivated largely by the way the MS implementation of WD/TR-xsl "got legs" -- but all that happened in the committee, so it's impossible for us mortals to know. Yet sometimes I have wondered whether if MS (or some other large simian?) would implement part of FO, with undocumented non-standard extensions, FO would quickly come to Rec. ??!?? (FWIW, much as we bang on Microsoft for their apparently predatory marketplace tactics, the history shows that technically, at least, XSL owes quite a bit to their investment.) In any case, I think Matt's account might be tempered a wee bit (as you say on that side of the pond). As for dates, here's a chronology. Again, comments welcome: August 1997 * XSL Note (proposed by Inso, MS and others):
* Merger of DSSSL flow object and CSS formatting properties
expressed in XML syntax
January 1998 * XSL Working Group formed, and we are starting to see
tools (MS Technology Preview, others)
February 1998 * [XML Rec finalized]
* XSL-List started at mulberrytech.com (we owe you, Tony!)
May 1998 * XSL Requirements Summary
August 1998 * XSL Working Draft
* Significantly different from NOTE-XSL
* Divided into "Tree Construction" and "Formatting Object"
portions with different editors
* XT alpha version released by James Clark
December 1998 * XSL Working Draft
* MS IE5 XSL processor largely conforms to this draft
April 1999 * XSL Working Draft
* Transformations are now a separate "XSLT" document
but still part of XSL specification
July 1999 * XSLT Working Draft
* New XPath Working Draft common to XSLT and XPath
November 1999 * XSLT (http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt) and XPath
(http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath) become Recommendations
March 2000 * "Last Call" XSL Working DraftBut for the real deal, check out http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/OldStuff.html#OldNews Cheers, Wendell At 09:00 AM 5/31/01, you wrote: > From: Matt Gushee ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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