Is it possible that IBM could donate the 2.0 processor to Apache? Sure. And that would be far better than reimplementing the quite major changes in that version.

Is it likely? No idea. It would seem an entirely reasonable thing to do; it's not as if the company is doing much about marketing it or using it to market Websphere, and I don't know if it is being actively maintained. 

But I'm not sure anyone in IBM still cares enough to care about donating this code to Apache either as a good or bad idea. 

I was forced to retire last year, so I'm not in a great position to advocate for the company to make that contribution. Last I checked, the xslt processor was still "owned" by the Websphere group, and Scott was in the Research division; that might make it harder for him to get the attention of the right people. I can ping him and see if he's interested in raising the question... 

Or we can try to find another channel to submit the request through. Is anyone currently employed by IBM still actively involved with an Apache project? If so, they might actually be the best folks to take this idea to manglement.

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On Feb 5, 2022 1:16 AM, Mukul Gandhi <muk...@apache.org> wrote:

Hi Joe,
   I think that, IBM's XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0/XQuery engines were bundled
with Websphere XML feature pack.

I imagine, the above cited products are IBM's IP. Is it possible
somehow, IBM may donate its XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0 engines to Apache
(Xalan)? That could be a huge boost to XSLT technology.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 2:50 AM Joe Kesselman <kesh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> I'd forgotten that Xalan was still 1.0; the IBM Research code derived
> from the Xalan base moved to 2.0 quite some time ago. (I think that got
> released as the Websphere XSLT/XQuery Compiler, or some such name, but
> was never widely promoted; there were some ugly things happening with
> headcount allocations at that time and we had other crises to handle.)
>
> Hmm.


--
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi



On Feb 5, 2022 1:16 AM, Mukul Gandhi <muk...@apache.org> wrote:

Hi Joe,
   I think that, IBM's XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0/XQuery engines were bundled
with Websphere XML feature pack.

I imagine, the above cited products are IBM's IP. Is it possible
somehow, IBM may donate its XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0 engines to Apache
(Xalan)? That could be a huge boost to XSLT technology.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 2:50 AM Joe Kesselman <kesh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> I'd forgotten that Xalan was still 1.0; the IBM Research code derived
> from the Xalan base moved to 2.0 quite some time ago. (I think that got
> released as the Websphere XSLT/XQuery Compiler, or some such name, but
> was never widely promoted; there were some ugly things happening with
> headcount allocations at that time and we had other crises to handle.)
>
> Hmm.


--
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi



On Feb 5, 2022 1:16 AM, Mukul Gandhi <muk...@apache.org> wrote:

Hi Joe,
   I think that, IBM's XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0/XQuery engines were bundled
with Websphere XML feature pack.

I imagine, the above cited products are IBM's IP. Is it possible
somehow, IBM may donate its XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0 engines to Apache
(Xalan)? That could be a huge boost to XSLT technology.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 2:50 AM Joe Kesselman <kesh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> I'd forgotten that Xalan was still 1.0; the IBM Research code derived
> from the Xalan base moved to 2.0 quite some time ago. (I think that got
> released as the Websphere XSLT/XQuery Compiler, or some such name, but
> was never widely promoted; there were some ugly things happening with
> headcount allocations at that time and we had other crises to handle.)
>
> Hmm.


--
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi



On Feb 5, 2022 1:16 AM, Mukul Gandhi <muk...@apache.org> wrote:

Hi Joe,
   I think that, IBM's XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0/XQuery engines were bundled
with Websphere XML feature pack.

I imagine, the above cited products are IBM's IP. Is it possible
somehow, IBM may donate its XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0 engines to Apache
(Xalan)? That could be a huge boost to XSLT technology.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 2:50 AM Joe Kesselman <kesh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> I'd forgotten that Xalan was still 1.0; the IBM Research code derived
> from the Xalan base moved to 2.0 quite some time ago. (I think that got
> released as the Websphere XSLT/XQuery Compiler, or some such name, but
> was never widely promoted; there were some ugly things happening with
> headcount allocations at that time and we had other crises to handle.)
>
> Hmm.


--
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi



On Feb 5, 2022 1:16 AM, Mukul Gandhi <muk...@apache.org> wrote:

Hi Joe,
   I think that, IBM's XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0/XQuery engines were bundled
with Websphere XML feature pack.

I imagine, the above cited products are IBM's IP. Is it possible
somehow, IBM may donate its XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0 engines to Apache
(Xalan)? That could be a huge boost to XSLT technology.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 2:50 AM Joe Kesselman <kesh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> I'd forgotten that Xalan was still 1.0; the IBM Research code derived
> from the Xalan base moved to 2.0 quite some time ago. (I think that got
> released as the Websphere XSLT/XQuery Compiler, or some such name, but
> was never widely promoted; there were some ugly things happening with
> headcount allocations at that time and we had other crises to handle.)
>
> Hmm.


--
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi



On Feb 5, 2022 1:16 AM, Mukul Gandhi <muk...@apache.org> wrote:

Hi Joe,
   I think that, IBM's XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0/XQuery engines were bundled
with Websphere XML feature pack.

I imagine, the above cited products are IBM's IP. Is it possible
somehow, IBM may donate its XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0 engines to Apache
(Xalan)? That could be a huge boost to XSLT technology.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 2:50 AM Joe Kesselman <kesh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> I'd forgotten that Xalan was still 1.0; the IBM Research code derived
> from the Xalan base moved to 2.0 quite some time ago. (I think that got
> released as the Websphere XSLT/XQuery Compiler, or some such name, but
> was never widely promoted; there were some ugly things happening with
> headcount allocations at that time and we had other crises to handle.)
>
> Hmm.


--
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi



On Feb 5, 2022 1:16 AM, Mukul Gandhi <muk...@apache.org> wrote:

Hi Joe,
   I think that, IBM's XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0/XQuery engines were bundled
with Websphere XML feature pack.

I imagine, the above cited products are IBM's IP. Is it possible
somehow, IBM may donate its XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0 engines to Apache
(Xalan)? That could be a huge boost to XSLT technology.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 2:50 AM Joe Kesselman <kesh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> I'd forgotten that Xalan was still 1.0; the IBM Research code derived
> from the Xalan base moved to 2.0 quite some time ago. (I think that got
> released as the Websphere XSLT/XQuery Compiler, or some such name, but
> was never widely promoted; there were some ugly things happening with
> headcount allocations at that time and we had other crises to handle.)
>
> Hmm.


--
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi


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