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Microsoft XSL and Conformance
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- Subject: Microsoft XSL and Conformance
- From: Andrew Kimball <akimball at microsoft dot com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 01:36:55 -0800
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Hi all,
I'm Andy Kimball, the Microsoft XSL developer. After today's "nested
template abomination" discussion, I had a couple of comments. First,
Microsoft is committed to delivering a conformant XSLT processor. If you
don't believe "Microsoft", then at least believe me. I'm writing the thing.
I've often gritted my teeth and implemented some feature that I thought was
inelegant, less than useful, or arbitrarily limited, just to be compliant.
As I receive feedback from the XSL community, I've been surprised at how
vocal and passionate people are about conformance (of course, people also
want performance, scalability, and usability without any trade-offs, and
they want it yesterday--unrealistic, but understandable). Now, I may not be
able to cross every tiny 't', and dot every insignificant 'i', but I will
make a good-faith effort to implement according to the 1.0 spec. If you
find conformance problems that concern you, feel free to e-mail me at
akimball@microsoft.com.
~Andy Kimball
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