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Erik James Freed wrote: > > The other problem is that there are those who believe that this product is > far from production worthy, and it is definitely far behind other > XML/XSL products in keeping up with current releases of standards. To make > matters even worse, both companies refuse to make a > public statement in regards to any of these issues and their intentions. Depends what you mean by "public statement". I count leaving major bugs as unfixed to be significant statements. Microsoft bundling the rather ancient MSXML into their latest version of a Java VM _without bugfixes_ is yet another sort of statement. (About standards and perhaps DataChannel.) > This means that server XML/XSL and client XML/XSL de facto standards are now > divergent. It remains to be seen what MS and or > datachannel have up their sleeve, but right now it is kind of bleak for > those like our company that would benefit a lot from identical > server and client standards for XML and XSL (T) I'd put it differently: the XML/XSL standards are pretty clear, but what's lacking is browser support, and there's no announced path whereby Microsoft's browsers will conform. There may yet be such a path -- but folk have been asking for conformance for some time, and not seeing it. - Dave xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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