Or has everyone moved to other tools?
As [email protected], I was involved in Xalan's development. (And Xerxes, to a _much_ lesser extent; I wrote their first DOM implementation.)
I retired last year, which means I have some hours available. I have a personal project under way right now, but after I get version 1.0 of that published I could be persuaded to re-familiarize myself with the Xalan-J code and do some cleanup and improvement on it. Some of the ideas we were playing with internally were patented, but (a) I think IBM would grant approval to Apache if we ask nicely, and (b) I think the one I'd want to use first may have elapsed by now in any case.
Note that I'm not volunteering to tackle the current implementation of Xalan-C. That was based on Xalan 1.0, which is a somewhat different architecture, I wasn't involved in the translation, and C++ is not my strong suit; I was able to keep Xalan-C limping along for a while, but I would recommend rewriting it completely, preferably _after_ at least some of the work on Xalan-J has been done. (A shift to a cursor-based data model API in particular.) Also, I suspect that Xalan-C's code is horribly archaic at this point; C++ was still trying to find it's feet at the time it was written.
Anyway, there it is: if there's significant demand, I can try to make myself available; if there isn't, I'd rather put my effort into something that would be more valuable to the community.
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