Subject: Re: [xsl] Is there a reason for not using XSLT 2.0 as a default From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:30:36 -0500 |
I can only speak to the *current* perception in the WebData XML team at MS about the lessons we as a company and an industry learned from this experience. The sense I get from my colleagues who were around is that it *was* a good faith effort to implement what they understood to be the draft spec, along with various improvements to make it suitable to known customer needs.
Furthermore, it had the result of offering considerable credibility to XSLT and creating a demand for XSLT tools and experience.. I can very easily imagine a world in which XSLT shared the fate of XLink, if MS had waited for the final spec and for customer demand to emerge before supporting it in its core products.
The MS position going forward is, as I understand it from my rather brief experience, NEVER AGAIN -- we will not ship support of a draft Recommendation in actual products.
That is why we removed the preview implementation of XQuery from the .NET 2.0 framework, that is why we are waiting until XSLT 2.0 is actually a Recommendation before announcing any implementation plans or schedule. (XQuery in SQL Server is a bit of a special case ... in any event we're not claiming to ship a conformant implementation, just something that leverages the years of experience that have gone into XQuery and meets pressing customer needs).
Regards, Wendell
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