RE: [xsl] Re: Microsoft XML

["Julian Reschke" <julian dot reschke at gmx dot de>]

> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Elliotte
> Rusty Harold
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:10 PM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] 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@microsoft.com, I was told
that they were not responsible for feedback coming from countries other than
the United States.

No kidding.


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