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> I think the real reason Microsoft aren't investing in XSLT is that they > aren't making any money out of it, which is because they can't compete with > free software. There are plenty of XSLT enthusiasts inside the company, as > the blog indicates, but they don't have >any funding. Well this was one of the things that I saw as the reason for the complexity of the new wd, if it becomes complex enough you weed out the competition. > The sad part of this is that it pretty well kills XSLT on the browser, which > always held out so much promise if only the interoperability problems could > be sorted out. I don't know if it kills XSLT on the browser. There is I assume still quite a long time before MS will release any browser that is .net based. > > XQuery in its current form is no good at document transformation, and even > for data, it's got much less functionality than XSLT 2.0. It will succeed as > a database query language, which is what it's designed for, but I don't > think it will ever threaten the space where XSLT is currently used. I don't know, success of a language is often tied to developer intuition of its future viability, lack of Windows support makes for an argument against such viability for some people. It's a hit, not a knockout. hmm, maybe it's only a slap, but I feel hurt. :(
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