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RE: [xsl] killing xslt

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Point well taken.

It makes me wonder why things like the Mono project,
(http://www.go-mono.com/) which is a project that allows cross
server-platform support of your .NET code base, haven't garnered more
attention from MS to try and block its progress.  I can see how the Mono
project could be a boon to MS to say that .NET code can also be run on
any server platform (gaining the support of cross-platform advocates)
while in the same breath saying that the Windows Server product is much
faster, etc... and therefore it makes more sense to run it on the
Windows platform.

Actually, this is definitely taking the subject away from XSLT so I will
just leave it at that.  Actually, it just occurred to me that we should
contact this project's coordinator to discuss the inclusion of XSLT 2.0
support as a default library.  Anybody know any of the guys on this
project?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bry@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bry@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 4:37 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] killing xslt
> 
> {"ASP.NET 2.0 is a phenomenal product. Many
> of us believe that one of
> our key XSLT scenarios, HTML generation,
> will be greatly diminished with
> the ease in which an ASP.NET solution can be
> developed. There will
> still be cases for XSLT on a web server,
> however this will be reduced in
> time."
> 
> I think we can finally say that we have
> found the core reason behind the
> decision to drop support for XSLT 2.0 - It
> competes with ASP and has
> been doing so since day one}
> 
> Actually I don't think it's that xslt
> competes with asp.net, but rather that xslt
> allows one to build solutions in such a way
> that porting the solution to another
> platform becomes significantly easier. not
> something you want going on, especially when
> your server is already taking a beating in
> the market.

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