Hi Dave,
wrt XSLT 2.0: This is some of the best news I've heard all year. I'm so
happy your working at Google now. Keep up the great work!
I suspect XSLT 2.0 is a very serious revision, possibly a complete overhaul.
It would be quite an achievement to make a XSLT C++ version a reality. That
20% Google gives it's employees to pursue their own interests is something I
wish other companies would embrace. In the mean time - I'm working into the
wee hours of the morning.
Hans
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bertoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <xalan-c-users@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 22:00
Subject: Re: Announcement/Poll: Compiler and platform support for Xalan-C
Hans Smit wrote:
Hi David,
I second Holger's list of compilers. These seem to be the standard
compilers of today. Of course one additional one would be:
- MS Visual Studio 2008
>
> but this is obvious.
Visual Studio 2008 is already on the list I posted, and it's my primary
development environment, so it will always be the first tested.
Also, excellent work on XalanC. I've been working with it for the past
year with no issues.
That's good to hear!
I'm also curious: XSLT 2.0 (is it the future?) So far I've been able to
do just about everything I need to (in XSLT 1.0), but with much more
additional XSLT code. I hate bloated code, but beggars can't be choosers.
When I was at IBM, I was constrained from working on XSLT 2.0 because I
was working on XQuery there. Now that I'm at Google, I'm using my magical
20% time to work on Xalan-C and Xerces-C, so development should pick up.
However, I suspect that XSLT 2.0 is more than I will have time for. My
current strategy is to start adding the XPath 2.0 functions to the core
library, making them available through a special namespace, or through
some global or local flag. Once I see how far I get with that, I'll be
able to judge if I can actually finish an XSLT 2.0 implementation.
Dave
