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RE: xsl:script
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] xsl:script
- From: Shimon Pozin <spozin at broadbase dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:31:13 -0500
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Thanks, Wendell!
Is there a list of available namespaces and differences
between them? If I specify "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform",
but version="1.1" will MS parser automatically switch to the
version 1.1 or 1.1 is not supported by MS at all?
And what's about xsl:script? Is there an implementation that
supports both tags: xsl:script and xsl:output?
Have a nice day,
Shimon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 9:49 AM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: [xsl] xsl:script
>
>
> Shimon,
>
> Actually, it's "http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl" that's earlier
> -- it was the
> namespace claimed by the December 1998 Working Draft of XSL
> (hence the
> "WD"). "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" was claimed by
> the final
> Recommendation version of XSLT 1.0, which was formally
> accepted by W3C in
> November 1999.
>
> The older namespace, like other namespaces declared by other working
> drafts, would be long forgotten if not for an implementation that was
> released in early 1999 by Microsoft in the MSXML processor.
> What makes
> matters worse for those concerned with compatibility, is that this
> implementation was itself (a) not complete to the draft even
> at that date,
> and (b) nevertheless contained proprietary ("experimental")
> extensions to
> the erstwhile "XSL", which were (are?) undocumented as such.
> The MSXML
> parser is still out there, even being described in several
> books in print,
> most of which take it at face value and are unaware of the
> conformance
> issues and the confusion generated. To be fair, the MSXML parser was
> labelled as an experimental pre-release ... but the hype
> machine seems to
> downplay that, to the extent it even understands that the package is
> obsolete as delivered.
>
> Microsoft's current release, MSXML3 -- which is not bundled with the
> browser, being obtainable only by download -- supports both
> the current
> Recommendation and the earlier WD.
>
> Way too much ink has been spilled trying to straighten out
> this issue. This
> is why tempers seem often to be shorter than is warranted by innocent
> mistakes or understandable confusion on the part of a newbie.
> It's as if
> the Pinball Club were constantly being invaded by
> shuffleboard players
> wanting to know about the rules of shuffleboard, because a large toy
> company was selling a shuffleboard set labelled "pinball".
> They may be call
> it pinball, but it's really shuffleboard. (They may call it
> "XSL", but it's
> not.) Unlike the Pinball Club, however, there's often money
> and development
> time riding on this.
>
> Regards,
> Wendell
>
>
> At 01:23 PM 1/18/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hello!
> >I guess this is kind of FAQ question, but I am frustrating to
> >find the answer.
> >I tried to add <xsl:script> element to my xsl file and
> >got warning that for namespace "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> >xsl:script is not available. Then, I tried to switch to
> >latest version, using namespace "http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl"
> >and got warning "Keyword xsl:output may not be used in namespace"
> >I need that xsl:output tag because I am transforming to xml and
> >html format, depending on parameter.
> >Could you tell me where can I read about current namespaces,
> >differences and so on. I thought that latest namespace should include
> >everything the earlier versions had plus new stuff, but seems I am
> >wrong in this assumption.
> >
> >Shimon
> >
> > XSL-List info and archive:
> http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
>
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