Hello Martin, I (from the point of the company I work on) have the same issues. And we (it was not my decision) use subversion HEAD to get it with top Xerces-c...
Still waiting for 1.11. With all the best to developers, Aleksandr Vinokurov. On 24 August 2010 17:55, Martin Baute <so...@rootdirectory.de> wrote: > Hello all, > > what is the status of the Xalan-C project? > > To be quite honest, from the outside it looks like this project has more > or less been abandoned: > > * The last release (1.10.0) is five years old, and > > * depends on an equally-old Xerces-C version, and > > * when using ICU for localization, it breaks with ICU >= 4.x (ref. > XALANC-702). > > * (Sidenote) Several links on the project website are broken (as far as I > can see, all links that should point into the Jira). > > I am maintaining several software projects that rely on Xalan / Xerces for > XML processing, and ICU for Unicode support. Right now, I keep compatible > with Xalan by not updating. The problem is clear: > > * OS update -> new GCC > > * new GCC -> build of ICU 3.x breaks -> new ICU > > * new ICU -> build of Xerces-C breaks -> new Xerces-C > > BUT: > > * new ICU -> build of Xalan-C breaks -> NO NEW XALAN-C AVAILABLE. > > At the bottom line, my question is: Is there something I overlooked, like > some post-1.10.0 release of Xalan-C that I simply missed, or a new Xalan-C > release just around the corner? > > Or should I start looking for an alternative to Xalan-C because this > project is defunct? > > Regards, > -- > Martin Baute > so...@rootdirectory.de >
