I would bet the Microsoft put up a big stink about any mention of Java.

-Patrick Moore-

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Kay [mailto:mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 3:50 PM
>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE:  XSL Standards?
>
>
>> Mike, were there any real technical issues (eg that didn't apply to
>> writing extension functions in JScript or Java) to providing
>> a standard
>> binding for writing extension functions in XSLT? Or was it something
>> else?
>
>I think it was just priorities, coupled with insufficient 
>experience in the
>early days of actual user requirements. Extension functions 
>were thought to
>be needed primarily for access to external resources, and to 
>algorithms (e.g
>regexp) which no one would dream of coding in XSLT. Of course 
>that changed
>over time and the requirement to write extension functions in 
>XSLT is now in
>the published XSLT 2.0 requirements.
>
>Mike Kay
>
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