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 <[EMAIL 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Henry Zongaro XSLT Processors Development > IBM SWS Toronto Lab T/L 969-6044; Phone +1 905 413-6044 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
