From: Ad 

Mike N. wrote:
> http://weblog.infoworld.com/lewis/archives/2007/06/more_microsoft.html
> ...
>
> "And so it was that today I tried to publish a project plan, developed in
> MS Project, in HTML format. It was a nice little feature in the previous
> version of Project. Now it's gone.
>
> But never fear, because ... Project's Help system says it best:
>
> Microsoft Office Project 2007 does not support the ability to save a
> project file as a Web page. Instead, you can save a project as a more
> flexible XML file. This enables you to apply any style sheet to the XML
> file.
>
> Got that? One problem: Unless you're willing to program one of these style
> sheets, you can't do anything useful with the XML file, like sharing it
> with other people so they can view it in their browsers.
>
> That's right: Internet Explorer (for example) won't even open the file for
> viewing.
>
> Aside from that it's a Great Leap Forward."
> ...
>

How come MS don't provide the XSLT? If not, someone should write one &
then chuck it up onto a web site somewhere.

Adam

>   This is just like the great rocket science erector set theory in the
> migration from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2005: The fundamental
> capability to "create comment web pages" of the source code
was yanked and
> replaced with a do-it-yourself alternative: every developer out there in
> the world who wants source code documentation has to roll their own
> XML-XSLT translation package.   Granted, 90% of developers are going to
> customize this to each project, but why not have at least a template to
> start from?
>
>   To do that to Visual Studio to devs is one matter - to pull that trick on
> Project users; who probably never wrote a line of XML or XSLT code in their
> life is ludicrous.
>

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