RE: Is it time for an XSLT-list?

["John E. Simpson" <simpson at polaris dot net>]

At 07:09 AM 4/4/2000, Michael Kay wrote:
>I've just waded through about 140 messages on the xsl-list, and about half
>of them were questions about the IE5 1998 XSL, and in very many of these
>cases the authors didn't make that clear in the posting, so it took about 10
>seconds to delete each one.
>
>I wonder if it's time for those of us who aren't interested in IE5 1998 XSL
>to take ourselves off to a new XSLT-list, where hopefully these people won't
>find us?

You coward :).

Kidding aside, I have to admit I've been amazed at the patience shown by 
you, David Carlisle, Dave Pawson, and other regular 
repliers-to-messages-about-the-putative-XSL-in-IE5.0. That said, I'd vote 
for something like Linda vdB's boilerplate reply solution rather than 
calving off a separate XSLT list.

I think what's been going on is that "XSL"-related books, magazine 
articles, and so on are just now starting to hit the shelves in quantity; 
given the usual publication delays (a lot of this stuff was written 6 
months or more ago), these tend to feature the language-known-as-etc. 
Furthermore, they almost certainly are including links to XSL-List as a 
great source of information about XSL(T) (as indeed it is). A lot of 
newcomers are showing up in force, trying to learn to swim by holding onto 
driftwood and other flotsam that they've mistaken for life preservers and 
surfboards.

MS are moving in the right direction on XSLT and eventually -- sooner 
rather than later, surely -- the number of people pounding on the door, 
asking questions about the 1998 version, is bound to drop to close to 0.

XSL-List has one of my favorite mailing list sigs -- favorite because it's 
only one line long. I wonder if Mulberry would consider adding, 
temporarily, a second line, something like "Questions about Microsoft IE5 
XSL should be directed first to the microsoft.public.xsl newsgroup"? Even 
if not, they should for their own sanity probably include a caveat to that 
effect on the main XSL-List info page and lead-in to the archives.

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