Subject: RE: Mike Kay and Microsoft (was: Accessing a node name from withi n <xsl:attribute>) From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:06:19 +0100 |
> The first thing to establish, though, is that Mike Kay > is definitely not the person to ask XSL questions regarding > Microsoft. I think he has a filter set up that detects > keywords like "IE5" or "Microsoft" and automatically > spits out some form of "Microsoft sucks" without regard > to the actual question asked. The first sentence is correct. I'm not an expert on the Microsoft dialect of XSL, and where it's clear that people are asking about that dialect, I generally avoid answering the question. Where it appears that people are confused about the two dialects, I try to help them understand the distinction. I'm afraid Microsoft have undoubtedly caused a great deal of confusion in the marketplace by shipping a general release mass market product that implemented an approximation to an early draft of a standard, and describing the product as if it implemented the standard. This wastes a great deal of my personal time, and costs my company and our customers a lot of money. I have never used insulting language about the Microsoft technology or the company, and I would never do so, it's not my style. I try to be completely objective about both its strengths and its weaknesses. If you can find any evidence that I have made statements which are not fair criticism based on fact, please point to them. Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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