Xalan3 XSLT 2.0 XPath 2.0 support? 2007-07-27 - By Matthew L. Avizinis
my 2ยข worth:
I for one would like to see this. I've played around with Saxon and
find that xslt2 is easier to write, read, and maintain. I've been
thinking about switching a project I've been working on where I work to
Saxon for this reason (among others), but I'd miss the nice
extensibility that Xalan has with its scriptable Java/Javascript (makes
it nice to include processor extension functions right in a stylesheet)
and its exslt support.
Unfortunately, wouldn't be able to contribute much other than reporting
potential bugs when encountered.
Matthew L. Avizinis
Gleim Publications, Inc.
Henry Zongaro wrote:
>
> Hi, Johannes.
>
> I'm cross-posting to both mailing lists to make sure we have broad
> coverage for this discussion. Everyone, please follow up on
> xalan-j-users.
>
> Johannes Neubauer <johannes.neubauer@(protected)> wrote on
> 2007-07-24 09:57:53 AM:
> > Will future releases of Xalan-J definitively support XSLT 2.0 and XPath
> > 2.0?
> >
> > I searched the user and dev mailing lists and found only 4 year old
> > postings that say that there will be XSLT 2.0 implementations in future
> > Xalan-J Releases. Furthermore I found the xslt20/ and xslt20-compiled/
> > branches in the SVN repositories, but 4 years passed since the last
> > checkin, too.
>
> Speaking as a committer on the Apache Xalan project, I'd certainly be
> interested in seeing an XSLT 2.0 implementation take shape here. I'd
> like to find out how much interest there is from others in seeing an
> open source XSLT 2.0 implementation from the ASF. If you're
> interested in such an implementation (as a user), please respond and
> let us know which features you're most interested in. And conversely,
> I would also like to hear from any users who are satisfied with an
> XSLT 1.0 processor, and not much interested in migrating to XSLT 2.0.
>
> Feel free to respond either on the mailing list or to me directly, in
> private. I'll summarize the results of this informal polling in a
> week or so.
>
> > In another mail-archive (not in a apache related) I found a posting that
> > claimed that a apache programmer has said that there won't come any
> > implementations for the new specifications, because the management does
> > not agree with them.
>
> For the benefit of the list, I thought I should mention that you told
> me in a private e-mail that you later realized it was a developer on a
> different XSLT processor (not an Apache Xalan developer) who said they
> had no interest in XSLT 2.0.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Henry
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