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XSL history (was RE: XSL Sites)
Wendell Piez writes:
> I thought Matt's potted history was excellent, except for one detail ... I
> think it arguable that the split of XSLT from XSL proper was motivated
> primarily by the MS implementation. That was a big part of it, but as you
> remember MS's was not the only implementation of early drafts. (There was
> also XT and one or two others in Java, plus that interesting package
> InDelv, etc. etc.) The whole community was discovering how useful the
> transformation part was even without the FOs (targetting HTML). A number of
> early adopters were quite outspoken on this issue, on XSL-List, sometimes
> with lengthy arguments. Check out the list archive.
Good point. I was slightly aware of this, but wanted to keep it simple
(I think it's 'cuz I hate sounding too academic ... just a personal
thing).
> (FWIW, much as we bang on Microsoft for their apparently predatory
> marketplace tactics, the history shows that technically, at least, XSL owes
> quite a bit to their investment.)
>
> In any case, I think Matt's account might be tempered a wee bit (as you say
> on that side of the pond).
As in, toning down the 'big bad Microsoft' stuff? That was
tongue-in-cheek; although I'm no fan of MS, I'm happy to give them
credit for their excellent XML tools.
Matt Gushee
Englewood, CO, USA
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