Hi Michael, On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM Michael Warner <michael.warner...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [libxslt stuck with XSLT1] > > I’m curious if you have ever considered using Saxon instead of LibXSLT and > upgrading the filters to make use of the newer language features. I searched > the mailing list archives and haven’t found any discussion of this.
There used to be saxon in LibreOffice but it was removed in 2012 with bfc71eb03e2bc6f26d53f70b32f9a8937086808b and related commits And one of the main reasons IIRC was to remove runtime java dependency. So you'll should find some discussion around that timeframe in the list-archives > Compatibility would have to be maintained during development. My suggested > course of action would be something like: > 1. Add SaxonC-HE as a dependency correct me if I'm wrong, but that also is still java based, right? If so that'd be a problem for e.g. macOS appstore where we cannot use java. > […] > It wouldn’t be a trivial task, of course. It would take me a long time, but > I’m willing to help if I was assured my contribution would be accepted. see above. appstore apps cannot depend on external programs, so we need to ship the whole JRE, something I'd rather not want to do.. So no hard feelings about replacing libxslt, but I don't think there's a good alternative that doesn't add runtime dependencies, and launching a JRE for e.g. a document filter also doesn't seem compelling from a performance standpoint.. ciao Christian
