RE: Saxon6.0.2: user written extensions

Yeah, I would very much wish to upgrade to a newer
release.  But due to we still use Xerces1.2.0 and that
it is incomptiable with newer Saxon (in particular
Saxon6.4.3 which I tried), it would require the
upgrade of Xerces from 1.2.0 to 1.4.4.  Given the
aggressive release schedule we have, we just don't
have the time to do all of these before I implement
this functionality: attribute name mapping.

Unfortunely I no longer can find a full download of
Saxon6.0.2 including documentation.  I was able to dig
out a full download of Saxon5.5.1 and found the
document extensibility.html dated 7/24/00.  Is this
applicable to Saxon6.0.2?  If I go with this approach,
how difficult would it be to migrate to a later Saxon
release such as 7.0?

Besides extension function and template, what other
alternatives I may have?

Much thanks,
Xiaocun

--- Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, it's possible to write user-written extension
> functions (in Java) using
> releases of Saxon well before 6.0.2, see the
> extensibility.html file for
> details. But it's a very old release, please don't
> expect any help. But I do
> think you would find it worth your while to use a
> newer release.
> 
> Mike Kay
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Xiaocun Xu
> > Sent: 18 January 2002 14:02
> > To: xsl-list
> > Subject:  Saxon6.0.2: user written extensions
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >   I am interested to implement Jeni's
> recommendation
> > for attribute name mapping via mapping XML (Re:
> 
> > change a list of attribute name).  I thought the
> most
> > efficient way to handle this would be through user
> > written extension functions.
> >   The situation I have right now is our
> application
> > currently uses Saxon6.0.2 (started to use a year
> ago)
> > and Xerces1.2.0.  I tried to upgrade to
> Saxon6.4.3,
> > but that had collision with Xerces1.2.0 (which I
> had
> > to put Saxon6.4.3 in front of Xerces1.2.0 in the
> > classpath to get around).  We probably won't have
> time
> > to upgrade both to Saxon6.4.3 and Xerces1.4.4
> until
> > the next major release.
> >   With my current situation, is it possible to
> write
> > user written extension functions?  If not, the
> only
> > alternative is via templates?
> >
> > Much thanks,
> > Xiaocun
> >
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