Re: IE5.0 and XSL

["Olivier Brand" <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your help.

Once again, Microsoft did it !! Ok, even it XSL is not a specification yet.
The clause order-by in a for-each tag is NOT in the last W3C document.
Microsoft prefered to use order by instead of xsl:sort. Why ??
All the other opensource (or not) XSL processor stays as close as possible
with the W3C draft. And I can imagine that Microsoft added more stuff to it.
I think that they have operator like gt, lt which is a very good idea.
The problem with XSL is that it is not a recommendation yet and Microsoft, by
implementing it in a product (IE5) would face the same problem they have faced
in the future: they will diverge from all the other people.
If people start to use the XSL procesor and format their XSL document to be
compliant with IE5.0, they won't be compatible with any other future browser.

So wait and see what is the next move from our dear uncle Bill

Olivier

Ben Jung wrote:

> xsl:sort is not yet supported. Try:
> http://www.microsoft.com/xml/xsl/tutorials/
>
> especially:
> http://www.microsoft.com/xml/xsl/tutorials/conformance.asp
>
> and
> http://www.microsoft.com/xml/xsl/tutorials/xsl-sort.asp
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Olivier Brand
> > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 11:54 PM
> > To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: IE5.0 and XSL
> >
> >
> > I have tried the final release of IE5.0 and it seems that it doesn't
> > support at least the following tags:
> >
> > <xsl:sort
> > <xsl:text
> >
> > I have an XML document with a link to an XSL document, IE5 told me that
> > these tags (sort and text were unknown ??) so after removing them, I
> > reloaded my XMl document and  I had a pretty blank page ?? Where are all
> > my data output by <xsl:value of are ???
> > I do have the right html tags  and headers in my stylesheet.
> > It is working fine with lotusxsl
> >
> > If somebody has a clue... Anyway if it doesn't work, I will zap IE5 from
> > my HD....
> >
> >
> >
>
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