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RE: XSLT conformance of MSXML2
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- Subject: RE: XSLT conformance of MSXML2
- From: Linda van den Brink <lvdbrink at baan dot nl>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 09:23:54 +0100
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On a Microsoft newsgroup (microsoft.public.xml.msxml-webrelease) the
following message was posted:
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From: Jonathan Marsh <nospam!!@microsoft.com>
Subject: RE: Undocumented missing features in MSXML2
Date: Monday, January 31, 2000 8:52 PM
The XSLT Additional Functions are implemented:
- current()
- system-property()
- format-number()
- function-available()
- element-available()
I'll file a bug on their omission from the SDK.
The following are not:
- document()
- key()
- unparsed-entity-uri()
- generate-id()
- Jonathan Marsh
Microsoft
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Another Microsoft developer said that we should realize that this web
release is not yet feature-complete, and that they will be conformant with
the XSLT and XPath specs. We are encouraged to post comments on the
above-mentioned newsgroup! I think this would be a good idea, since they
really seem to intend to conform to the standards we're discussing here. And
they crave for our input. :-)
I already posted a wish list saying that they should implement calling named
templates, and the preceding-sibling, preceding, following-sibling, and
following Xpath axes. Whereupon Microsoft developer Jonathan Marsh asked me
which of these four I have the greatest need for, or are they all equally
important. What do you all think? Maybe the -sibling ones are more widely
used, e.g. in sorting/grouping?
Linda
-----Original Message-----
From: Kay Michael [mailto:Michael.Kay@icl.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 5:25 PM
To: 'xsl-list@mulberrytech.com'
Subject: RE: XSLT conformance of MSXML2
> format-number() without a third argument appears to work, but
> ignores the supplied format pattern.
Further investigation suggests that some format patterns work and others are
rejected, none are ignored as I suggested.
Mike
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