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Re: XPath Visualizer -- Sorry? (Was: Re: [Announce] XMLSPY 5 Released - Includes XSLT Debugging and HTML to XSLT conversion utilities.)
- From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev at yahoo dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:54:30 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: [xsl] Re: XPath Visualizer -- Sorry? (Was: Re: [Announce] XMLSPY 5 Released - Includes XSLT Debugging and HTML to XSLT conversion utilities.)
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Because some people are asking for the link:
http://www.altova.com/products_ide.html
--- Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From the product description:
> "XSL Editing and Debugging
> Stylesheets are easy to write using the built-in XSL editor, which
> includes full debugging, XPath visualizer..."
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> To all XSLT programmers:
>
> The XPath Visualizer has been around for more than two years. It has
> always been a ***free*** tool and will always be ***free***.
>
> As it happens a company may take the name of a successful free (and
> in
> fact open-source) tool and use it for a component of its $399
> product...
>
> I am not commenting on the ethical side of this phenomenon... but my
> message to you is:
>
> Please, do never mix the XPath Visualizer
>
> http://www.topxml.com/xpathvisualizer/
>
> with whatever some company would call by the same name, whether this
> might be done intentionally in order to use the popularity of the
> true
> and ***free*** XPath Visualizer and to confuse the people into
> spending
> their money for the fake, or just out of sheer ignorance.
>
> How ugly can commercialism get?
>
> Dimitre Novatchev.
>
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