This is the mail archive of the
xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
mailing list .
Re: International Characters in attributes
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Subject: Re: [xsl] International Characters in attributes
- From: lachance at chass dot utoronto dot ca (Francois Lachance)
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:43:29 -0500 (EST)
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Michael,
In your pragmatic approach to the tech lag:
> But of course, you could say that I'm removing the incentive to get
> proper browsers on to desktops. I suppose it's my long disillusioning
> experience of IT policies in the University sector that makes me say
> that if a boxful of free, wholly standards-compliant and bugless XML
> browsers were delivered to every University in the world tomorrow, in
> 5 years time they would still be having committee meetings to decide
> whether to open the box with scissors or a knife.
do you create XSLT stylesheets that not only deliver material suitable for
rendering on early model browsers but also embed a message suggesting
users might wish to update their browser?
I did smile when I imagined any committee, academic or otherwise, trying
to decide how to open a box for software that can and is shipped without
boxes over a network. :)
--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance
Member of the Evelyn Letters Project
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm
XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list