RE: [xsl] xsl:sort in old MSXML

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Claudio,

Thanks for persisting with this thread. You are raising issues that seem to 
be a barrier to understanding for many.

At 01:37 PM 7/2/2003, you wrote:
> It happens that while reading the incoming msgs in the list, I wondered 
> why, if a standard was on, while all so many people were having so much 
> trouble deploying (me too) XML/XSLT transactions. For those as you guys, 
> who have really clear all these flavours maybe looks pretty easy, but it 
> doesn't look so for the rest.

No, it doesn't. It looks easy to us since we've chosen, for different 
reasons, to stick to the "straight and narrow", to place 
standards-compliance and vendor-neutrality first and fancy functionalities, 
second, even if that means waiting for things such as client-side 
processing. (If the cutting edge is proprietary, I'm less interested in it. 
That doesn't mean I want to discourage it, as innovations are often 
proprietary! It just means that I'm going to be inclined to let more 
heavily-capitalized ventures take the lead until the new thing becomes 
standard.) But as XSLT evolves and gets implemented within various 
frameworks, newcomers naturally have questions about how it all fits 
together. Unfortunately, there's no single right answer to this -- often, 
they should really be asking the vendors of their tools and toolsets how 
*they* mean it to fit together. On the XSL-List, precisely because we are 
vendor-agnostic, you are liable to get more generalized answers about how 
they fit in theory, not particular answers to how they do or should fit for 
you.

Cheers,
Wendell


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