I'm in support for Xalan (I'm personally referring to XalanJ) being active at Apache these days, even enhancing its XSLT 1.0 support (bug fixes etc). I think, XSLT 1.0 is still very important, as browsers natively support only XSLT 1.0. There are numerous practical uses possible, that still would not require XSLT 2.0 / 3.0 like schema aware support.
As Gary wrote, JRE also includes XSLT 1.0 processor derived from Xalan. On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 9:49 PM Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > Roman, > > Gary Gregory here, PMC member. > > Your analysis is spot on, there is very little activity on the project. > > A few years back, I RM'd release 2.7.2 which was a semi obscure exercise > as no one was or is around to answer questions as to what branch means what > and details about the build. > > There are pending patches and some interest to see these through, and I > would not mind keeping on pushing on. BUT... > > Stepping back, it is not clean to me how far the Oracle JRE has diverged > from Xalan or how relevant Xalan is now compared to the Oracle JRE and > Saxon (http://saxon.sourceforge.net/). > > It seems Xalan has fallen quite far behind Saxon for example. > > I could see that releasing a 2.7.3 with a bug fixes would help folks. > > Gary > -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
