Subject: RE: [xsl] Re: Microsoft XML From: "Max Dunn" <maxdunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:10:16 -0700 |
That comment made perfect sense at the time it was written, which was early 2000. The book was first printed in June 2000: who knows how long (several months?) the lapse was between the last stages of writing and the publication. See the status as of May 2000 for yourself: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/05/10/conformance/conformance.html Or earlier, which was probably the version of MSXML that Brett McLaughlin had last encountered before writing that 'racist comment': http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200001/msg00345.html http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200001/msg00354.html It is easy to see *now* that Microsoft was destined to come around and eventually catch up with implementations such as Saxon in terms of conformance, but at that time they were definitely lagging. I would imagine the second edition of this book (due out shortly) will not make a similar statement. Max -----Original Message----- From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Gallagher Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 2:58 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [xsl] Re: Microsoft XML I find this extremely offencsive to Microsoft, whoever wrote that section needs to be informed that Microsft do not plan on making their own version of XML, i see this almost as a racist comment against Microsoft! We'll all see in the near future that Microsoft will conform to the standards at an high level. Yours Martin Gallagher XML @ http://www.StylishMonkey.com - The Dynamic Web Experience! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Galbreath" <mgalbrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:10 PM Subject: [xsl] Re: Microsoft XML > Admittedly, I am new to XML/XSL; this is from Brett McLaughlin's "Java and XML," (O'Reilly 2000): > > "The Microsoft parser has been intentionally left out of this list; from all appearances, Microsoft does not now or in the future intend to conform to W3C standards. Instead, Microsoft seems to be developing their own flavor of XML. We have seen this before...be careful if you are forced to use Microsoft's parser" (p. 24). > > Brett McLaughlin, as you probably know, has teamed up with Jason Hunter ("Java Servlet Programming" (O'Reilly 2001) and James Duncan Davidson (author of the JAXP specification) to create JDOM (now at RC-7). XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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