RE: [xsl] Re: Microsoft XML

["Max Dunn" <maxdunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That comment made perfect sense at the time it was written, which was
early 2000.  The book was first printed in June 2000: who knows how long
(several months?) the lapse was between the last stages of writing and
the publication.

See the status as of May 2000 for yourself:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/05/10/conformance/conformance.html  

Or earlier, which was probably the version of MSXML that Brett
McLaughlin had last encountered before writing that 'racist comment':
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200001/msg00345.html
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200001/msg00354.html

It is easy to see *now* that Microsoft was destined to come around and
eventually catch up with implementations such as Saxon in terms of
conformance, but at that time they were definitely lagging.  

I would imagine the second edition of this book (due out shortly) will
not make a similar statement.

Max

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin
Gallagher
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 2:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [xsl] Re: Microsoft XML


I find this extremely offencsive to Microsoft, whoever wrote that
section
needs to be informed that Microsft do not plan on making their own
version
of XML, i see this almost as a racist comment against Microsoft!

We'll all see in the near future that Microsoft will conform to the
standards at an high level.

Yours Martin Gallagher

XML @ http://www.StylishMonkey.com - The Dynamic Web Experience!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Galbreath" <mgalbrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:10 PM
Subject: [xsl] Re: Microsoft XML


> Admittedly, I am new to XML/XSL; this is from Brett McLaughlin's "Java
and
XML," (O'Reilly 2000):
>
> "The Microsoft parser has been intentionally left out of this list;
from
all appearances, Microsoft does not now or in the future intend to
conform
to W3C standards.  Instead, Microsoft seems to be developing their own
flavor of XML.  We have seen this before...be careful if you are forced
to
use Microsoft's parser" (p. 24).
>
> Brett McLaughlin, as you probably know, has teamed up with Jason
Hunter
("Java Servlet Programming" (O'Reilly 2001) and James Duncan Davidson
(author of the JAXP specification) to create JDOM (now at RC-7).


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