RE: [xsl] MSXML5 suport XSLT2? [Slightly OT]

["Dion Houston" <dionh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

MSXML5 is a release specific to Office 2K3.  You probably do not want to
develop around it.

Unfortunately, Microsoft does not currently plan on releasing any
implementation of XSLT 2.0 either in the MSXML or .NET Framework
platforms.  Microsoft will fully support XQuery on the .NET Framework.

I'm not in the group that produces our XML data products, so if you have
any questions/comments/complaints about this, please direct them to our
public newsgroups.

Thanks!

Dion


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob Rohan
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 9:43 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [xsl] MSXML5 suport XSLT2? [Slightly OT]

On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 09:09, Lars Huttar wrote:
> > Our plan is to phase out the native development and you should plan
on
> > switching to .Net Framework as MSXML60 will be the last version of
MSXMLs.
> ...
> > > How soon before the release of MSXML50 would DOM Level 3 have to
be a
> > > recommendation for MSXML50 to implement it?  XSLT 2.0? XPath 2.0?
XML
> > > Schema 1.1? XML 1.1?
> >
> > [umut] Again MSXML has no plans to implement new features: XSLT 2.0,
XPath
> > 2.0. For XML 1.1 and XSD 1.1 we are still thinking about it.
I am not sure this means that they will not support xslt2.0 rather that
it wont be in the MSXML libraries. 

I have done a bit of development with VC++6.0 and .Net (cut me some
slack I needed the money!) - the difference between the two seems to be
an underlying platform change. So I think you can read the statement
more like - we wont update windows3.11 to do xslt2.0 - I don't see him
saying Microsoft will not support xslt2.0 only MSXML will not.

> I wonder if this means that most people running Windows will not have
> access to XSLT 2.0, ever. 
They already have access to it (well, inasmuch as Saxon has implemented
it)

> I was hoping it would become part of IE, as
> is the case with XSLT 1.0, so that we could write XSLT 2.0 stylesheets
> (that seems so much easier!) and be pretty sure that eventually most
users
> would be able to use them!
It may be. The new IE will probably be written in .NET

> 
> Or maybe MS means that XSLT 2.0 in-browser support will be implemented
in .NET
> instead of in MSXML which is native C/C++ or something.
aye - I *think* this is what they meant.


Cheers,
Rob
-- 
Rob Rohan <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


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