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(also posted on list4xt and xml-dev) Almost one year after the launch of 4xt [1], I have thought I should ask the question again. I had been hoping that the effort of maintaining XT could be shared between a team of developers using 4xt as their home (I made it clear from the beginning that I couldn't take the full load on my shoulders). This has not happened and most of what has been published during this year on 4xt are "peripheral" developments that I have implemented. During this past year, XT has begun to fade away as predicted [2] by James Clark and many developers are moving to other implementations. XT is missing a couple of important features (IMHO, at least keys and namespaces nodes) that should be implemented and I had recently to switch to SAXON for my examplotron that I couldn't implement using XT. On the other hand, a new benchmark [4] published on XML.com shows that XT is, by far, the fastest open source XSLT processor (for any implementation language) and the only processor that seems to be able to compete with Microsoft's implementation. I think it's time, then, to ask the question again: Should we let XT fade away (and if not, is anyone willing to help) ? Eric [1] http://4xt.org [2] http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=554 [3] http://examplotron.org/ [4] http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/03/28/xsltmark/index.html -- See you in San Jose for SD West: http://cmp.bluedot.com/re/attendee/sdw/speakerPage.esp?speakerId=36534626 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist Dyomedea http://dyomedea.com http://xmlfr.org http://4xt.org http://examplotron.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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