Re: XSLT 2nd Edition : Appendix F

Hi Michael,
   Thanks for your reply. Its very insightful.


with best regards,
Mukul gandhi

On 9 November 2016 at 20:24, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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 <
> 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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