Re: Venting

Subject: Re: Venting
From: Chris Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:04:02 -0500 (EST)
[Sean McGrath]
> Maybe I've missed something and someone can provide a pointer, but I
> have not heard any noises from Microsoft about implementing FO's in
> XSL in IE. My impression from Microsoft's stuff is that they see XSL
> as a way of generating HTML - a transformation language only.

To me, this is an argument for keeping the specs together.  I don't
want a browser that doesn't implement FOs to be able to claim XSL
compliance.  (Given various browsers' track records, that probably
won't stop them.  Does anyone remember "HTML 3.0 compatible!"?)

-Chris
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