Thanks, Jirka. I just figured that the Docbook XSL stylesheets were pure XSL 1.0 not tied to any particular implementation.
Its good to hear that they will be pure XSL 2.0 in the future (even though it appears that Saxon 8/9 is the only implementation). Cheers, Mike On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 10:47 +0200, Jirka Kosek wrote: > Hussein Shafie wrote: > > Michael Santy wrote: > >> > >> Have you given any thought to upgrading Saxon in XXE v4? > > > > Yes. > > > > > > > >> Saxon v9 supports XSLT 2.0 in addition to a XSLT 1.0. > > > > We just need to test its compatibility with existing DocBook, DITA and > > XHTML XSLT 1.0 style sheets. > > DocBook XSL stylesheets are not working with Saxon8/9 in 1.0 backward > compatibility mode because they use many Saxon extensions available only > 6.5.x. New version of DocBook stylesheets written in pure XSLT 2.0 is > being developed but it is not yet as mature, stable and feature rich as > current DocBook XSL stylesheets. > > Ideally, XXE can bundle both versions of Saxon and customization (or > even transform command) should specify which version of XSLT language > should be used. Default could be 1.0 to maintain compatibility with > existing plug-ins. > > Jirka >
