Yeah,
I've been lurking for two years behind the scenes on the question of
XPATH/XSLT 2.0 in xalan. Still no one with cycles to get the ball
rolling! But perhaps on the XPATH 2.0 question alone looking at xalan
and PsychoPath
(http://wiki.eclipse.org/PsychoPathXPathProcessor/UserManual) might be
a place to start (check the archives)? Some "fail on schema use
detected" implementation might not be that difficult? Or is the
"sequence" question going to make it impossible? Not that I'm volunteering!
Doug McNeil
On 3/12/2010 4:32 PM, Tatu Saloranta wrote:
--- On Fri, 3/12/10, kesh...@us.ibm.com<kesh...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
I'd love to see Xalan tackle it -- but
Xalan lost its most active contributors a few years ago due
to time demands
from Real Jobs, and development slowed down as a result.
...
So... I'd say that if you like the idea,
you should start drafting versions of this and submit them to Xalan as
proposed changes when you've got a large enough bundle
to be an interesting
Wasn't there someone who quite recently wanted to fork off Xalan, to work on XSLT 2.0? It
might be good to check out archives, perhaps group of like-minded pioneers could see if
"Xalan next-gen" could become reality...
(this just an outsider observation: I have not worked on Xalan codebase at all,
but can appreciate sizable effort that would entail...)
But I would also suggest that "just start coding" is not a bad approach. With
git-based projects, for example, that's sort of standard approach.
Trying to convince others of value is easier when there is some action to back it
up, beyond just hope& plans.
Just my 2c,
-+ Tatu +-
