XSL - "XSL" in Microsoft Products

"XSL" in Microsoft Products

Microsoft's MSXML, first released in March 1999, contained an incomplete implementation of the December 1998 transformation language published in the W3C XSL Working Draft. Microsoft documentation used the term "XSL" to refer to this language as implemented in MSXML, including MSXML-specific extensions and omissions. Subsequently, when MSXML was updated to support the final W3C XSLT 1.0 Recommendation, Microsoft documentation referred to the obsolete dialect as "XSL" and to the new language as "XSLT". Other commentators follow the lead of Michael Kay in referring to the older language as WD-xsl. Current versions of MSXML (as of 2009) continue to support the obsolete dialect, but no longer mention it in the documentation.

Since the mid-2000 release of MSXML 3.0, MSXML has had complete support for both XSLT 1.0 alongside the older dialect. MSXML 3.0 became the default XML services library of Internet Explorer (IE) upon the release of IE 6.0 in August 2001. Older versions of IE could use MSXML 3.0 only with a custom install in "replace mode".

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