Subject: criticism of MSXML (was Re: asp assistance) From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 03:07:58 -0600 (MDT) |
> Come on - that's a bit rough, don't you think? Since when is a software vendor > under any obligation to mention competitive products on their website? I didn't say they were under obligation. It was a suggestion. I am trying to point out that Joshua has a bit of nerve, being sarcastic about Mike Kay's anti-MS attitude on the list and insinuating that users of Saxon and XT made a bad choice. These statements alone are not terribly inflammatory, but in the big picture it seems that the situation could have been less irksome for all involved, if there weren't scads of IE5 users showing up here and on comp.text.xml, irritating the old hats and with questions about Not-XPath, Not-XSLT, version 0.02 pre-alpha. If anyone has the power to effect some positive change with regard to this situation, it is the world's largest software company. I proposed a couple of relatively small steps they could take, making some changes to their web site, that would help address the root of the problem, which is, in my opinion, the continued distribution and promotion of MSXML 2.0, with precious little information provided to its users about its obsolescence with regard to what XSL has become, and how well they would do to upgrade, if they're intending to use the product. - Mike ____________________________________________________________________ Mike J. Brown, software engineer at My XML/XSL resources: webb.net in Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.skew.org/xml/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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