differences between MSXML and .Net XSL transformation

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Daniel - 11 Sep 2004 00:30 GMT

Are the differences between MSXML and .Net XSL transformation documented
online anywhere? Many of my XSL's work in MSXML but transform differently in
.Net XSL transformation.

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Martin Honnen - 11 Sep 2004 12:21 GMT

> Are the differences between MSXML and .Net XSL transformation documented
> online anywhere? Many of my XSL's work in MSXML but transform differently in
> .Net XSL transformation.

Both MSXML 3 and MSXML 4 and .NET implement XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0 thus
as long as you are using a stylesheet in the namespace
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform
and stick to the standard there shouldn't be any differences.
MSXML 3 also implements a WD (working draft) version published before
XSLT 1.0 became a standard, if you have stylesheets conforming with that
working draft then they are useless with .NET unless you rewrite them to
comply with the XSLT 1.0 standard.

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Pranav Kandula [MSFT] - 14 Sep 2004 18:40 GMT

>>MSXML 3 also implements a WD (working draft) version published before XSLT

1.0 became a standard
This is not true. MSXML3 was first released on web in Oct 2000 and it did
implement full XSLT which was a recommendation in 1999.
I guess you are referring to the first version of MSXML which implemented a
WD of XSL 1.0 not XSLT.

Daniel, What are those things where you are seeing the differences between
the 2 transform techniques ?

Pranav Kandula

> > Are the differences between MSXML and .Net XSL transformation documented
> > online anywhere? Many of my XSL's work in MSXML but transform differently in
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> working draft then they are useless with .NET unless you rewrite them to
> comply with the XSLT 1.0 standard.

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Oleg Tkachenko [MVP] - 19 Sep 2004 11:57 GMT

>>>MSXML 3 also implements a WD (working draft) version published before XSLT
>
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> I guess you are referring to the first version of MSXML which implemented a
> WD of XSL 1.0 not XSLT.

As a matter of interest, MSXML3 does support WD-XSL language. MSXML4
doesn't though. I think the reason why WD-XSL is still supported is that
default XML stylesheet (which works when you open styleless XML
document in IE) is written in WD-XSL (res://msxml3.dll/defaultss.xsl)
and can't be translated into XSLT due to differences in data model (e.g.
XSLT never can process XML declaration or CDATA sectin, while WD-XSL could).

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