Re: XSLT 2nd Edition : Appendix F

The changes to the XSLT part of JAXP have been very modest over the years.
There's a two-argument form of TransformerFactory.getInstance(), and there are
clarifications to the Javadoc descriptions of some methods [often, sadly, just
documenting the bugs in the Xalan implementation ;-)], and I think that's
about it. They added Transformer.reset() at some stage, but I've never been
sure why, because it's much better to simply allocate a new transformer.

The specs have never been updated to XSLT 2.0, and they have never tackled the
interoperability problems caused by the weak typing on interfaces like
Transformer.setParameter().

Michael Kay
Saxonica


> On 9 Nov 2016, at 14:13, Mukul Gandhi gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx> <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> I'm fortunate to read Michael Kay's book XSLT 2nd Edition (XSLT 1.0
version). I've also read a lot of his XSLT 2.0 book as well. This is with
reference to Appendix F (TrAX & JAXP 1.1 references in it) of Mike's XSLT 1.0
book.
>
> Is anyone aware of the differences between JAXP 1.1 and latest version of
JAXP (which is 1.4 I think)? The TrAX and JAXP 1.1 topics in Mike's book are
very well explained, and it gives me a feeling that much of the description in
this Appendix would also apply to JAXP 1.4. Any thoughts?
>
>
> with best regards,
> Mukul gandhi
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