RE: [xsl] xsl:sort in old MSXML

["Claudio Russo" <crusso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lo Wendell,

I understood "latter" term, but I didn't "former"... Now it's clear. 

Where is Mercka? MD?  ("merca" stands for drugs in spanish slang, down here).

Claudio.

-----Original Message-----
From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Miércoles, 02 de Julio de 2003 12:50 p.m.
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Subject: RE: [xsl] xsl:sort in old MSXML


Claudio,

Heh, lucky me. I said something backwards but you didn't notice. :->

"The former" is an expression we use to refer to "the first [of two]", "the 
latter" means "the last [of two]". So if I say "you can do either X or Y, 
but the former is preferable" I'm trying to say X is preferable.

I'm aware that sometimes my recklessly idiomatic English (or maybe it's 
Merckan, they argue about that) gets me into trouble. I'll try to be 
clearer....

Cheers,
Wendell

p.s. Merckan is the language we speak here in Mercka.

At 08:43 AM 7/2/2003, you wrote:
>Sorry but I didn't get this one (maybe it's further my english knowledge). 
>What's "the former"?
>-----Original Message-----
>
>Oops! I meant "the former", of course. :->
>
>At 03:27 PM 7/1/2003, you wrote:
> >If you mean "descriptive" markup vs. "procedural" markup ... XML can be
> >used for either, though it's particularly well-suited to the latter.


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