Subject: RE: Abbreviated Location Paths... From: Guy_Murphy@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:02:30 +0100 |
Hi. I personally know of two very large projects that I'm involved with, one starting with MSXML, and the other moving over to it over the Summer. It's there, it's frozen, it's better than the alternative.... use it. I would agree that this is a less than ideal, but as you point out, we have all seen expedience win out over the "good thing" many times. Whether it should or shouldn't the MSXML implimentation will have a significant impact. Take a look at eXcelon for instance. Object Design would claim to hold 50% of the OODB market, and even if they're hyping it up, it's significant. Their new XML server garnering extremely good press expresses a concept of XQL based almost wholy on the MS notion of XSL pattern matching. Their lead XML "guru" talks frequently about their relationship with MS, to the point whereby it supports MS implimented DCDs but not DTDs. My *hope* is that IE5 is MS playing with XSL as they did with IE4 and XML, and that IE6 will see a complete XSL solution..... this is assuming that XSL is finished by the time IE6 comes out. Like it or not, MS is that black body that creates a distortion in space-time. I would have prefered to see a version 1.0 frozen by now with work continuing on v2 ::shrug:: it'll all pan out however it's going to I suppose :) Cheers Guy. xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 04/22/99 01:17:47 AM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: (bcc: Guy Murphy/UK/MAID) Subject: RE: Abbreviated Location Paths... [SNIP] If I was Microsoft I'd be reluctant to move forward to this spec as there will clearly be more changes. I think that increases the risk that the Microsoft dialect currently in the field will become the de facto standard. (Some of us remember how ANSI had to unwind all their improvements to SQL and make it compatible with IBM's DB2 product...) Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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