facts, conclusions, and exhortations re XML (long)

[Paul O'Rorke]

I think you are wrong.  At least in the case of business to consumer e-commerce sites.  Those
sites, when they use XML, they are using xml on the server side and rendering it as HTML that
gets sent down the wire to clients.
---Paul O

Michael Champion wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paul Prescod <paul at prescod.net>
> To: <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 8:04 PM
> Subject: Re: facts, conclusions, and exhortations re XML (long)
>
> >
> >  4. Hardly anybody uses IE5 client-side stylesheet for production work.
> > To start with, no serious web publisher can afford to alienate the vast
> > majority of users using non-IE5 client software.
>
> I agreee with everything else here, but I believe the exact opposite is
> true:  The vast majority of XML client seats supporting XSL use IE5, and Web
> publishers use the IE5 "technology preview" flavor of XSL as a de-facto
> standard.
>
> I hope I'm wrong ... but if so, what *do* this vast majority of users use?
>
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