Subject: Re: Jade/DSSSL future From: James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 10:30:39 +0700 |
"Frank A. Christoph" wrote: > > I have sometimes wondered whether I wasted five years of my life > > doing DSSSL and Jade, but I comfort myself with the astonishing fact > > that a little bit of their spirit now seems likely to live on in, of all > > places, Microsoft Windows. > > Well, this is a rather astonishing remark of considerable intellectual > honesty; I'm sure it will echo on in the minds of all the list readers for > some time to come. > > But I'm mystified by the last bit: how are DSSSL or Jade connected to > Windows? I think it's fair to say that a bit of the spirit of jade -tsgml and DSSSL live on in XSLT; Microsoft's XSLT implementation is an integral part of their XML support (it's in MSXML.DLL), and that is now a standard part of the Windows system software. This isn't just a "IE is part of Windows" marketing thing. They're using XML for system-level things; for example, the next generation of Plug and Play, which they call Universal Plug and Play (see http://www.upnp.org/) has devices using XML to describe their capabilities. The extent to which Microsoft has embraced XML never ceases to amaze me. James DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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