RE: [xsl] Definite list of XSLT 2.0 processors?

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Saxon and Altova are still around. Altova when I last looked had fixed most
of the conformance bugs that were present in early releases. Some users now
seem to develop on Altova and then deploy on Saxon.

Gestalt is still there, but with no further development.

Oracle and Microsoft have made no further moves, as far as one can see.

IBM have announced their XSLT 2.0 processor, available as part of Websphere.

Intel have announced their XSLT 2.0 processor, available as part of SOA
Expressway.

I have heard rumours of two or three other processors that are under
development, but I have no idea when (if ever) they will see the light of
day.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Abel Braaksma [mailto:abel.online@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 11 January 2010 18:58
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Definite list of XSLT 2.0 processors?
> 
> Happy New Year to everybody!
> 
> While slowly getting my hands back into XSLT 2.0 again, I was 
> wondering whether the past one and a half years (yes, I 
> admit, I was a bit "out") any new XSLT 2.0 processor or plan 
> thereof has seen the light. Here's what my memory gives and 
> what I deducted from my copy of the xsl-list:
> 
> -- Gestalt, Eiffel XSLT 2.0 processor far in progress, but 
> ceased further development in Nov. 2008, open source
> -- Saxon, Java XSLT 2.0 SA and Basic, fully functional, both 
> commercial and open source editions
> -- Altova, XSLT 2.0 command line only (aka AltovaXML), fully 
> functional, known bugs, closed source, free
> -- Oracle 10g XSLT 2.0 processor, closed source, free 
> separate download, unclear development status, pre-Rec
> -- Microsoft had plans for XSLT 2.0 for .NET 3.5, but no real 
> new news seen since, not included in .NET 4.0
> -- XSLT 2.0 features implemented with XSLT 1.0: remember the 
> plan, can't seem to find it, it would be limited though
> 
> That is: 4 processors actually developed, some half-baked 
> plans, one (two if we count SA + B double) real XSLT 2.0 
> processor, one XSLT 2.0 commercial processor (AltovaXML) with 
> a disputed reputation and reliability. Is that the current 
> status still? Does anybody know of another commercial or open 
> implementation that's missing from this list?
> 
> I'm particularly surprised about MS, esp. now that more and 
> more of their new technology is based on XSLT and XML. 
> Internally, they've implemented the XPath 2.0 datamodel, but 
> that's all so far it seems.
> 
> Kind regards to everyone,
> 
> Abel