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RE: Re: XPath Visualizer -- Sorry? (Was: Re: [Announce] XMLSPY 5 Released - Includes XSLT Debugging and HTML to XSLT conversion utilities.)


Holy Visualizers Batman!

There's also one at:

http://www.logilab.org/

We all know the real deal is Dimitre's though... thanks for writing it!

Dion

-----Original Message-----
From: Dimitre Novatchev [mailto:dnovatchev@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 11:55 AM
To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
Subject: [xsl] Re: XPath Visualizer -- Sorry? (Was: Re: [Announce]
XMLSPY 5 Released - Includes XSLT Debugging and HTML to XSLT conversion
utilities.)

Because some people are asking for the link:

http://www.altova.com/products_ide.html


--- Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From the product description:
> "XSL Editing and Debugging
> Stylesheets are easy to write using the built-in XSL editor, which
> includes full debugging, XPath visualizer..."
>                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> To all XSLT programmers:
> 
> The XPath Visualizer has been around for more than two years. It has
> always been  a ***free*** tool and will always be ***free***.
> 
> As it happens a company may take the name of a successful free (and
> in
> fact open-source) tool and use it for a component of its $399
> product...
> 
> I am not commenting on the ethical side of this phenomenon... but my
> message to you is:
> 
> Please, do never mix the XPath Visualizer 
> 
> http://www.topxml.com/xpathvisualizer/
> 
> with whatever some company would call by the same name, whether this
> might be done intentionally in order to use the popularity of the
> true
> and ***free*** XPath Visualizer and to confuse the people into
> spending
> their money for the fake, or just out of sheer ignorance.
> 
> How ugly can commercialism get?
> 
> Dimitre Novatchev.
> 
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