{"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.