RE: Saxon for C/PHP/Python/etc

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 7:04 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Saxon for C/PHP/Python/etc

>
> This does come up in the context of people wanting a XSLT 2.0-lite,
> but if starting now -- and starting a Kickstarter-like campaign now --
> would it be better to architect for something that could grow to full
> XSLT 2.0 or something that could grow to full XSLT 3.0?
>

You can certainly add functions and operators and instructions
incrementally, but changing the data model is a "big bang" and pretty well
has to be done before you can do anything else. There's no point
implementing bits and pieces on top of a 1.0 data model, as they will all
have to be reworked later.

I would just make one point about funding, which is that if you're asking
people for money, you not only need to persuade them that the product is
needed (which in this case should be fairly easy), but also that you can be
relied upon to deliver it. I've seen several attempts to write XSLT
processors in C fail; it's not an easy task.

Michael Kay
Saxonica


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