Heh, and there brings the main point.
"If you know you need new tools, and you haven't yet acquired them,
you're already paying for them."
"XSLT 2.0, huh? Sounds overly fancy and risky. Do we _need_ it?"
"Well, no, but-"
"Then no. XSLT 1.0 is good enough for now."
~ Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:03 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] Add numbers
At 12:46 PM 10/9/2007, Mike wrote:
Point taken and noted. Unfortunately, at my work, we're stuck
using XSLT 1.0 until Microsoft gets around to releasing their
implementation of XSLT 2.0
That kind of supplier loyalty leaves me gobsmacked.
Even if you're planning to wait indefinitely, is it really good tactics
to
tell Microsoft this is your plan?
I saw a nice line in an old advertisement for precision machine tools:
"If you know you need new tools, and you haven't yet acquired them,
you're already paying for them."
Cheers,
Wendell
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