On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
Does anybody have experience using the recent releases of MSXML? I'm wondering in particular if their xslt is standards compliant. I understand from the XML bible http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/chapters/ch17.html that it is or was not. Microsoft's own pages make it sound like the latest versions might be
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html/xmmscXMLOverview.asp,
but it can be difficult to trust them sometimes.
The standard MSXML XSLT FAQ given by people is: http://www.netcrucible.com/xslt/msxml-faq.htm
However, that is not very up to date.
I ask because a neat tool (Textpipe http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/textpipe.html) I use has now built-in XSLT, but depends on MSXML.
Any interesting product. For that price I'd have expected a way to choose what parser it uses, but I'm assuming it is a .NET program which makes that more difficult. There is no reason to not use that for the types of conversions it uses and a sensible parser like saxon ( http://saxon.sf.net ) for real transformations.
For those who don't know what I am talking about: XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language-Tranformations) is a stylesheet language used (amongst other things) for converting documents written in XML (eXtensible Markup Language) such as used by the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) into HTML for display on the web.
Or into other XML structures, or plain text. :-)
Once the web site is up, we should put all these acronyms into a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) file. Does anybody know of a good existing list of acronyms for beginners?
http://www.acronymfinder.com/ as already mentioned is good in that it has lots, but doesn't give much explanation.
http://www.dictionary.com/ has less acronyms (though all the ones you mentioned) but usually links to better definitions.
Thanks for setting up the list,
-James