Hi; I was happily lurking around with opengrok to fix a long standing issue in the FreeBSD port related to gperf (yucks!) and I found with surprise that writerfilter/source/ooxml/rngtocxx and a lot of other files make reference to xalan but of course, ... we don't carry xalan!
Now I did a search for saxon, and apart from configure and a couple of .xsl files we only use saxon here: /filter/source/xsltfilter/XSLTransformer.java So... I went to our wonderful new bitbucket repository and I found this comment from 2008: "There is no module 'xalan' any more, has been removed by CWS xsltfilter10." So now I looked in the history for saxon and effectively xsltfilter10 appears again (repeatedly) and there is a hint on the the reason for the replacement: "#i91376# - xslt2 processor for OOo xmll filters" I think the reason for the replacement is that Apache xalan doesn't support xslt version 2, and the fact that the latest version was released in 2007 doesn't help nowadays. So after some detective work I got to the same options we had before: if we don't need xslt2 we may be able to move back to Xalan but ideally we should be looking at Zorba instead: http://www.zorba-xquery.com/ cheers, Pedro.
