Michael Ludwig <m...@as-guides.com> wrote on 2009-02-17 12:16:06 PM: > Thomas Cox schrieb: > > In scanning the archives, this looks like it may be a dead issue. > > > > So, my question is not so much when or whether this will be available, > > but rather, Why WON"T it be available? > > I'm not a Xalan developer, so I don't know for sure. But my guess is > that XSLT 2.0, meaning also XPath 2.0, is a huge specification compared > to 1.0, with a proportional increase in complexity and development effort.
Yes, that's the reason. The topic has come up a number of times, and the problem is always the same: there aren't enough people able to commit the time and effort to develop an open source XSLT 2.0 processor under the Apache Xalan project. Thanks, Henry ------------------------------------------------------------------ Henry Zongaro XML Transformation & Query Development IBM Canada Lab T/L 313-6044; Phone +1 905 413-6044 mailto:zong...@ca.ibm.com
