Dear XSLTC users, I owe you clarification about the status of my XSLTC version, binaries of which are served from my website www.ambrosoft.com. The version is derived from Apache/Xalan/XSLTC 2.3.1 which in turn is derived from my final project at Sun Microsystems.
I have returned to this topic because I myself need XSLTC for my commercial work; the direct trigger was an email from Stefano Mazzocchi on lack of benchmarking data and bugs prohibiting him from the unrestricted use of this promising technology in Cocoon. I started to work on XSLTC again after a long break thinking that perhaps it was a matter of fixing a few outstanding bugs and everything will be fine. After many long days of intensive effort I realized that the code is in fact quite far from fully realizing the potential of the original vision. This is my personal opinion. I am not going to discuss details here, but improvement opportunities are numerous and I am implementing them. My current version represents an uncompromising overhaul of the code base and is no longer implementation compatible with Xalan/XSLTC (although it is API compatible). Therefore at this point I cannot CVS-commit nor -update as doing so would mess up the Apache and/or my versions. I am calling my version "experimental" because I indeed experiment freely with any, however far-reaching, changes I feel are beneficial to the technology. I am addressing performance and architectural issues with a fresh perspective. Maybe my long break was not such a bad thing after all :-) This level of free experimenting would not be possible in the context of the Xalan community effort, neither would it be a good thing: it would be destabilizing. Naturally, I wouldn't be investing energy into reenginering XSLTC if I didn't believe a worthwhile outcome would result. I will continue to post information about XSLTC-2 at my website, but I strongly feel it inaproppriate to continue discussing it at this forum. That's why I had asked people interested in progress/use of XSLTC-2 to contact me directly. I am sorry if this explanation disappoints some of you but I hope my results will end up being useful to XML/Java users. --Jacek _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
