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Michael,

On 11/28/2010 10:41 AM, Michael Ludwig wrote:
> Christopher Schultz schrieb am 27.11.2010 um 08:18 (-0500):
> 
>> We are using Cocoon with Xalan and Xerces:
>>
>> xalan-2.7.1.jar
>> xercesImpl-2.9.1.jar
> 
>> Xalan is still stick in a 3-year rut with no releases. Lots of stuff
>> has happened in the XSLT world since then... it's a shame that those
>> standards aren't (appearing to) being actively developed.
> 
> The XSLT and XPath standards are certainly being actively developed,
> there's an upcoming release of XSLT 3.0 (formerly known as 2.1).

Right: the standards are (slowly) marching forward, but they don't
appear to be making it into the ASF XML projects.

> As for implementations, there's Michael Kay's Saxon for XSLT 3.0 (and
> 2.0 of course, for Java and .NET), and a new implementation of 2.0 for
> .NET called XQSharp (still beta).

Yup, I've been considering Saxon for its XSLT 2.0 features and I've also
heard that I might also gain a slight performance improvement in the
deal. The code is not all OSS (not truly a big deal) and, depending on
our needs, may require a commercial license for us.

> Xalan, LibXSLT, MSXML and System.Xml.Xsl are still at XSLT/XPath 1.0,
> though, and it doesn't look like that's going to change any time soon.
> If progressing, they must be doing so in U-Boot mode.

+1 :(

> Anyway, for Java you can just use Saxon if you want XSLT 2.0.

That's the way I'm leaning, though it's a giant PITA to re-test an
entire system with a new infrastructure product. ;)

- -chris
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