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Re: XSLT 2.0 for LAMP [Was:: [ANN] Zorba 2.0: complete XQuery/

• From: Steve Ball <Steve.Ball@explain.com.au>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:09:39 +1100

Hi All,

My efforts on XSLT 2.0 haven't faltered - they've just been in a bit of a hiatus over the winter. With summer coming I'm looking to reinvigorate the project and start things up again.

You are right - the business model was wrong. Getting the business model right is challenging.

The design of the XSLT 2.0 implementation using libxslt involves creating a separate libxslt2 library. It is not quite a drop-in replacement, but is close to it. It does use xmlDoc structures, but not the xpath module.

Cheers,
Steve Ball

On 13/10/2011, at 7:10 PM, Tony Graham wrote:

> On Thu, October 13, 2011 12:24 am, John Cowan wrote:
> ...
>>> More to the point, there's a gaping hole in the market for an open
>>> source XSLT 2.0 processor that runs on the LAMP stack.
> 
> Some distributions provide shell scripts for running Saxon so users, at
> least, can use XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 from the command line.
> 
>> Which Zorba could easily do, since it's written in C++ and could be
>> SWIGged or hand-integrated.  That would provide XSLT 2.0 processing
>> for Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.
> 
> I can't find Steve Ball's XSLT 2.0 effort right now, but IMO that faltered
> at least in part because it was going to be funded by people paying for
> early access to the code.
> 
> IMO, the essential feature for a XSLT 2.0 processor for the LAMP stack is
> the ability to consume and produce libXML2-style xmlDoc trees so it can be
> a drop-in replacement for libxslt that just works.  Implementing the top
> levels of the libxslt API would do more for its success than having its
> own, fully-featured API.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
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• References:
  • Re: [ANN] Zorba 2.0: complete XQuery/XSLT processor (C++,opensource, Apache license)
    • From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
  • Re: Re: [ANN] Zorba 2.0: complete XQuery/XSLT processor(C++,open source, Apache license)
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
  • Re: Re: [ANN] Zorba 2.0: complete XQuery/XSLT processor(C++,open source, Apache license)
    • From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
  • XSLT 2.0 for LAMP [Was:: [ANN] Zorba 2.0: complete XQuery/XSLT processor (C++,open source, Apache license)]
    • From: "Tony Graham" <tgraham@mentea.net>