Why would they go off and do their own thing? Do they have some basic objections to Xalan?
--- On Wed, 11/11/09, kesh...@us.ibm.com <kesh...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > From: kesh...@us.ibm.com <kesh...@us.ibm.com> > Subject: Re: XalanJ future > To: xalan-dev@xml.apache.org > Cc: xalan-dev@xml.apache.org > Received: Wednesday, 11 November, 2009, 2:23 AM > Better > link to the IBM beta: > > > > http://webspherecommunity.blogspot.com/2009/07/xml-feature-pack-xpath-20xslt-20xquery.html > > > > Unfortunately, some of the > folks who > have been working on that are the same people who had > previously been providing > most of the active support for Xalan > > > > Of course Xalan *is* open > source, so > the rest of the Xalan community could/can still carry it > forward... > > > > ______________________________________ > > "... Three things see no end: A loop with exit code > done wrong, > > A semaphore untested, And the change that comes along. > ..." > > -- "Threes" Rev 1.1 - Duane Elms / Leslie > Fish (http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/threes-rev-11.html) > > > > > > > > > David > Carver <d_a_car...@yahoo.com> > > 11/10/2009 09:22 > AM > > > > Please > respond to > > xalan-dev@xml.apache.org > > > > > > > To > xalan-dev@xml.apache.org > > > cc > > > > Subject > Re: XalanJ > future > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Correct, plus the several versions of > work in progress > Xalan with XSLT > > 2.0 support can be found in the Apache SVN repository: > > > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xalan/java/branches/ > > > > Xalan3, and XSLT20. Neither of which has seen > activity in less than > 5 > > years. > > > > Dave > > > > kesh...@us.ibm.com wrote: > > > I believe David is referring to > > > > > > http://webspherecommunity.blogspot.com/2009/04/was-open-xml-feature-pack-beta.html > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________ > > > "... Three things see no end: A loop with exit > code done wrong, > > > A semaphore untested, And the change that comes along. > ..." > > > -- "Threes" Rev 1.1 - Duane Elms / > Leslie Fish > > > (http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/threes-rev-11.html) > > > > > > > > > *Adam Jenkins > <adamjenkinstmpredir...@yahoo.com.au>* > > > > > > 11/09/2009 11:52 PM > > > Please respond to > > > xalan-dev@xml.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > To > > > > xalan-...@xml.apache.org > > > cc > > > > > > > Subject > > > > Re: > XalanJ future > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Can you elaborate on this David? Is this a > proprietary processor, > or > > > open source? url? What do the Xalan guys > think about this, > are they > > > going to EOL Xalan or are they waiting for resources > to catch up to > 2.0? > > > > > > --- On Tue, 10/11/09, David Carver > <d_a_car...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > > From: David Carver <d_a_car...@yahoo.com> > > > > Subject: Re: XalanJ future > > > > To: xalan-dev@xml.apache.org > > > > Received: Tuesday, 10 November, 2009, 3:22 PM > > > > And unfortunately, IBM which provided > > > > the original basis for Xalan has > > > > decided to do their own XSLT 2.0 processor > instead of > > > > making Xalan XSLT > > > > 2.0 capable. Even though there is code in > Apache's > > > > source code control > > > > system that has the basis for XSLT 2.0 support. > > > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > Mukul Gandhi wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Andy > Chambers > > > > > <achambers.h...@googlemail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> As always, it depends on your usage but > saxon is > > > > pretty well optimized > > > > >> and worked significantly faster in > benchmarks we > > > > created for our typical > > > > >> usage. > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > Personally speaking, I haven't observed > any slowness > > > > with Xalan. I > > > > > haven't seen any industry standard > benchmarks which > > > > compare > > > > > performance of XSLT engines. > > > > > > > > > > Any XSLT benchmarks that are available, I > think are > > > > either > > > > > proprietary, and cater to a limited > complexity of use > > > > cases (i.e, are > > > > > not fully generic). XSLT stylesheets can be > very > > > > diverse, so saying > > > > > that some processor is faster by measuring > the > > > > performance for certain > > > > > kinds of stylesheets cannot be extrapolated > > > > universally. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> Being able to use XSLT 2 is a big > advantage too. > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > Yes definitely, there is not doubt about > this :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > xalan-dev-unsubscr...@xml.apache.org > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > xalan-dev-h...@xml.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________________________ > > > Win 1 of 4 Sony home entertainment packs thanks to > Yahoo!7. > > > Enter now: http://au.docs.yahoo.com/homepageset/ > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > xalan-dev-unsubscr...@xml.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > xalan-dev-h...@xml.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > xalan-dev-unsubscr...@xml.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: > xalan-dev-h...@xml.apache.org > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________________________ Win 1 of 4 Sony home entertainment packs thanks to Yahoo!7. 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