Subject: Re: [xsl] Microsoft XML Team blog: XSLT 2.0 From: "M. David Peterson" <m.david@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:26:46 -0700 |
On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 07:37:17 -0700, Houghton,Andrew <houghtoa@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
What I found interesting about the announcement was that they pointed people to an open source and commercial product who urgently need an XSL 2.0 implementation. This is a significant change in culture at Microsoft. Most people who urgently needed an XSL 2.0 implementation, are already are using Saxon .NET, thanks much for the port Saxonica.
Credit here, I believe, goes to a a very active and vocal internal group at MSFT in whom listened to and pointed internal decision makers to the various internal and external voices. Like I said, a lot of people deserve credit for this, and as I pointed out in my follow-up to Mike,
>> And we worried that M. David would hate us because XSLT2 wouldn't ship in Orcas :=)
> Thanks for bringing this all together, btw... Obviously a lot more has gone into all of this than what can be seen at the surface level, but none-the-less, your role in bringing this all together is both obvious and appreciated (as are the efforts of those that might not be so obvious from the outside looking in)!
It's impossible to know -- as Dr. Kay points out -- who and what had the most influence. But none-the-less, times have changed at MSFT, and above all, there is a reason XSLT 2.0 was an attractive lure in the first place...
Credit: Dr. Kay and his work on the XSLT 2.0 spec (and, of course, the others in whom provided input along the way)
-- /M:D
M. David Peterson http://mdavid.name | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354
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