[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Three announcements!
7 February 2017 is a big day for XSLT... ONE: The second and definitely the final Candidate Recommendation for XSLT 3.0 has been published at https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/ There aren't any exciting feature differences since the previous CR from November 2015, but there's a lot of minor tidying-up of detail, including a few syntax changes (e.g. xsl:stream becomes xsl:source-document so it can handle streaming an non-streaming symmetrically, like the rest of the language). There is intended to be a very short review period of about a month, after which the spec goes to PR and then to W3C Advisory Committee vote. The end of the tunnel is definitely in sight! TWO: Saxon-JS 1.0 is released. Odd, isn't it, how you can demonstrate an exciting new product six weeks after you start coding, and then it takes another year to get to a product quality release 1.0. Getting through thousands of XPath and XSLT conformance tests on half a dozen browser platforms takes time, and we wanted to do it thoroughly. But finally, in time for XML Prague 2017, it's done. Congratulations to my colleague Debbie Lockett who led this project. Details are here: http://www.saxonica.com/saxon-js/index.xml The web site, of course, is itself powered by Saxon-JS. Along the way we added some important capability, previewed by John Lumley at Balisage last year: the product now includes a complete XPath 3.1 engine, that can be used to both parse and execute XPath queries in the browser, against XML or HTML documents, invocable both via a Javascript API and via the XSLT 3.0 xsl:evaluate instruction. THREE: A new maintenance release Saxon 9.7.0.15, on Java and .NET. Well, that's a bit more mundane, since we've doing a new maintenance release every six weeks for about fifteen years, but it's just a reminder that we don't get distracted by the new and shiny stuff from the daily routine of supporting our customers, fixing bugs, and doing everything we can to polish the reliability, performance, and conformance of the product for the large numbers of open source and commercial users whose work depends on it. Thanks for all the feedback, we really appreciate it, and we will continue to try and respond to it as rapidly as we can. Michael Kay Saxonica
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