RE: asp assistance please (Can we get some POSITIVE suggestions please?)

["Paulo Gaspar" <paulo dot gaspar at krankikom dot de>]

Again, I couldn't agree more.

But then, I already posted my bit of prose under the 
"RE: XSL rendering on IE 5" subject.

Have fun,

Paulo Gaspar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Dan Morrison
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 13:38
> To: xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: asp assistance please (Can we get some POSITIVE suggestions
> please?)
> 
> 
> Ditto.
> 
> Please tone it down - I have found that the XML division of MS is
> genuinely well-intentioned, and have done a damn fine job until now of
> keeping up AND deploying a product which many folk are actually finding
> useful in day-to-day practice. 
> Whatever you prejudices you may choose to hold,  MS is NOT a monolith of
> drones, there are more than a few individuals in there trying to do the
> right thing, and there's more than the usual proportion in the XML
> division this year :-)
> 
> It was ALWAYS understood - by anyone who actually bothered to read up -
> that last years MSXML implimentation was only partial - as were most
> equivalent products at the time IE4 was released!
> The spec didn't even exist then, remember?
> 
> The terms "pre-release", "beta" and "web release" do actually imply
> "caveat emptor" (although I too am unsure just what "Web Release"
> actually means!) 
> 
> 
> Don't blame the manufacturer for only documenting what they wanted you
> to know - blame the dolts who have NEVER visited XML.com or W3C, read
> any industry mags or checked out any of the newsgroups or discussion
> lists. Complaining you are misinformed is just a case of _willful_
> ignorance, so drop it.
> 
> It doesn't take five minutes of websearching to get aware that there are
> compatibility issues between different products. 
> 
> C, HTML, Java - some of the most widly deployed 'language standards'
> have all and always had platform issues, quirks and work-arounds. Yes
> they should be ironed out, but give up knocking the pre-releases. 
> If anyone ever claims a 100% bug-free money-back guaranteed
> fully-compliant parser - sue them. Until then keep the money you paid
> out for MSXML (how much was it?) in your pocket.
> 
> ... sorry. I'm just getting fed up with this dead horse being pushed
> around the group AGAIN this week.
> 
> .dan.
> 
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