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RE: killing xslt

Subject: RE: killing xslt
From: "Kenny Akridge" <kenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:08:14 -0400
killing kenny
David,

I remember asking this question and I have been wondering ever since.  I
can't recall where I read it, but I did read that Microsoft will support
version 2 once the final spec is released.  However, I realize Microsoft
could change that stance at any time.



-----Original Message-----
From: M. David Peterson [mailto:m.david@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:01 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  killing xslt

I believe it was last November that Michael Kay posted to the list
concerns regarding whether or not MS would be supporting XSLT 2.0 and as
such a call out to anybody who might be willing to support a port of
Saxon over to .NET.  I considered donating time to the effort but later
realized my workload was to great and as such wouldn't be able to give
the project a meaningful chunk of time to do something with.  What ever
happened to this thread?  Has a secret society of XSLT devout taken on
the task in silence or did the post simply not garner enough attention
at the time to get anything off the ground?

Is it time to resurrect the thread, using Microsoft's own Java to C#
conversion tool (in beta of version 3 now so its obviously being used)
to give us a head start on the port?  Or are there any other XSLT2.NET
projects out there that have come about because of similar concerns that
caused Michael to make that post 6 months ago?

There is too much opportunity here for me to believe that someone hasn't
already begun either a port of Saxon or a brand new engine that will
support the 2.0 standard on .NET.  And if there's not, well then the
opportunity is once again ours to take on Michael's original challenge.
It seems to me the same group that developed EXSLT for .NET would have a
lot to contribute to something like this and that same working
infrastructure might be the perfect pre-existing organization to look to
facilitate the efforts in that they have already gone through the
growing pains of developing an open source XSLT processor project for
.NET.  Are any of you guys currently reading this thread and have input
to say regarding this matter?

Thoughts?

<M:D/>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bry@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bry@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 8:11 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  killing xslt
> 
> note the following:
> http://weblogs.asp.net/mfussell/archive/2004/
> 05/13/130969.aspx
> 
> Well this is sort of weird for me, I
> remember when the xslt 2.0 recs were first
> coming out, and all the arguments we had,
> one of things I considered then, and I think
> I argued it, was that the hideous marriage
> with xsdl was basically driven by microsoft,
> natural enough given their wholesale
> acceptance of xsdl.
> 
> Given that there was some concern that some
> of the smaller xslt processors would not be
> able or would be unwilling to make
> improvements to support xsdl I felt that
> this urging on of the schema integration was
> definitely a drawback, given that probably
> there would only be a couple of processors
> willing to support it. That in essence xsdl
> support was killing off xslt.
> 
> Now I'm not so sure about accidentally.
> 
> IIRC MS announced some time back that there
> would be no further updates to MSXML, other
> than I suppose service packs and bug fixes.
> So MSXML will not be supporting XSLT 2.0,
> and .NET will not be supporting XSLT 2.0,
> and thanks to the largeness of XSLT 2.0, the
> largeness of XSDL, and of course debates
> about the meaning of large areas of the
> schema spec how many processors for the next
> version of the language can be counted on?
> And what is the likelihood of those
> processors being cross-platform compatible?

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