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> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Elliotte > Rusty Harold > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:10 PM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Re: Microsoft XML > > > At 1:23 PM -0700 8/15/01, Joshua Allen wrote: > > > >1) Microsoft fully implements XML 1.0, XSLT 1.0 (and XPath). If you > >feel there are conformance bugs in these implementations, please let us > >know, because our goal is to be 100% conforming. > > > > Did I miss the announcement where you were actually shipping a > conforming XML parser and XSLT processor with the current > versions of IE and Windows? Microsoft has a long history of > shipping radically nonconforming XML software with the tools > people actually use. That was certainly true when Brett's book > was published and for a long time afterwards. Unless something > has changed very recently, (I haven't checked out SP2 for IE5.5 > yet) you're still doing it. Even in MSXML 3.0 (which is not what > IE uses by default) you still don't recognize the correct MIME > media type for XSLT style sheets. There is no such MIME media > type as text/xsl. Never has been. Probably never will be, except > in Microosft's imagination. > > But that's a minor issue. The real problem is that Microsoft is a > very large company with different groups going in different > directions. The XML team is more or less on the ball most of the > time. However, very few people have any direct interaction with > the XML team or its products. Instead most people experience XML > in MS products through the work of the IE team, or the Windows > team, or Microsoft speakers and trainers. Guess what? They aren't > on the ball, and they don't know what's going on, and they are > still evangelizing and distributing technologies that the XML > team abandoned years ago. That's slowly changing, but not > nearly as fast as it should be. As a matter of fact, MSDN recently (in the last 4 weeks) published two articles where server-side XSLT was explained. Guess what? They were using the "WD-XSL" dialect. When I complained at msdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, I was told that they were not responsible for feedback coming from countries other than the United States. No kidding. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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