RE: Xalan3 XSLT 2.0 XPath 2.0 support?

We really would like to see the xpath functions in xslt 2.0. We have considered moving to Oracle XML to get XSLT 2.0 support.

I would even be willing to put in some Company/Spare time to implement some of these functions.

 

Jarle

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From: Henry Zongaro [mailto:zongaro@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 26. juli 2007 12:06
To: xalan-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; xalan-j-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; johannes.neubauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Xalan3 XSLT 2.0 XPath 2.0 support?

 

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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