Hello,
Over the past few months, we've seen some activity from the W3C's XML
Core Working Group that has an effect on XSLT processing. The W3C
published the Candidate Recommendation of XML 1.1 [1] on 2002-10-15, and
the Candidate Recommendation of the Namespaces in XML 1.1 [2] on
2002-12-18.
Xerces-J recently added experimental support for XML 1.1 and
Namespaces 1.1, so Xalan-J users acquire some limited support for XML 1.1
in the form of input documents and stylesheets. However, a serialized XML
document is still restricted to version 1.0. Further, the set of
permissible characters in QNames and NCNames has been expanded by XML 1.1
and Namespaces 1.1, but a stylesheet would not be able to match or select
such a QName or NCName with a NameTest.
It seems desirable to add experimental support for these candidate
recommendations to the Xalan-J processors; I hope that's not a
controversial statement. What I'd like to ask is: do people have a
preference on which branch of Xalan-J they'd like to see that support -
only the xslt20 branch, or the MAIN branch as well?
I'll send a separate note to the xalan-j-users mailing list pointing
to this note to keep the discussion limited to one mailing list.
Thanks,
Henry
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-xml11-20021015/
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-xml-names11-20021218/
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