>>Erik:
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>>Maybe they are talking about laying out a web page by applying XSL stylesheets to XML data rather than using Java. In this case the XML will be the HTML page elements and the XSL stylesheet will control the layout?
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>>Charlie
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>But what Java functionality does this replace? Java is not used to layout pages, and you can't write code in XML (Script imbedded in XML, yes).


Maybe we sould wait a little bit before questioning ourselves about this.

There must be somebody new in charge at Microsoft. And that person does'nt know the difference between JAVA and XML. In a couple of days (or weeks depending on the time of reaction) that person will realize that JAVA and XML are not related. That does'nt mean that VJ++ won't get eliminated by MS but at least they will be able to give the real reason of its rejection.