Subject: RE: Netscape 6 lack of XSL support From: MarkH@xxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 15:00:35 +0100 |
| > He further adds, "It seems obvious to me that for anyone who wants to | deploy XML in production mode right now, XML + CSS is the way to go." | | I think these are absurd statements! CSS is far too limited to use for | presenting XML documents. It has zero transformation capabilities! Without | the "content" feature of CSS2 it cannot add new content to the output. It | can't sort. It can't reorder content. I've got to wonder if Tim Bray really | said that last line, "XML + CSS is the way to go". Strong stuff! But if you quote Tim's whole sentence it does make sense because there isn't sufficient support for XSL for content providers to make use of it "right now" which is what he's talking about - rather than the future - which I guess is what you are more concerned with (along with most of the people interested in XSL), including me! Within a very few months things will be different, and I'm sure that XSL solutions will then be "the way to go" for deployed solutions. I've just done a comprehensive search for XSL support for serious application development (in my case this means C++ based) and there is hardly anything around which can be used for commercial applications. Most is either not yet functional enough (CUEsoft, T.I.M.E. Lux, Oracle), non-distributable (eg MSXML), or crashes/expensive (no names!). There are non-commercial options such as the Mozilla XSLT processor - Transformiix (which is pretty functional), and the Apache XSLT processor - Xalan - which is not ready yet. I'm discounting Java solutions as they are inappropriate for my applications, as well as being dog slow! Mark XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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