Sun stopped contributing to Xalan not long after we got their compiler design merged into the system. I haven't watched whether that changed after Sun was picked up by Oracle.
For a very long time, the Sun/Oracle JDK's version of Xalan was badly back-level. I would hope, but haven't checked, that OpenJDK has been tracking more closely. The version query should still be present in both, which might give some idea of where they are up to. As has been said, the question of cross pollination is unfortunately subsumed in the observation that Xalan has had little development activity for quite some time. IBM was the major driving force, and when that stopped... -- /_ Joe Kesselman (he/him/his) -/ _) My Alexa skill for New Music/New Sounds fans: / https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WJ3H657/ () Plaintext Ribbon Campaign /\ Stamp out HTML mail! ________________________________ From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2023, 8:08 AM To: dev@xalan.apache.org <dev@xalan.apache.org> Subject: Relationship to JDK The Oracle JDK and OpenJDK, probably others, have bundled a repackaged Xalan for years. What is the current relationship of these versions to Apache Xalan? In particular: Does anyone contribute patches from the JDK(s) back into Apache Xalan? Do bug fixes from Apache JDK get contributed into the OpenJDK? Which versions of Apache Xalan are the source of the bundled Xalans in which versions of the JDK? Or have the JDK bundled versions of Xalan completely forked from Apache Xalan so that there's little cross-pollination between them? -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elh...@ibiblio.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@xalan.apache.org
