Re: [xsl] New XSLT 3.0 Working Draft

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Will there be an open source version of Saxon covering 3.0 Michael,
> presumably the HE variant?

No decisions yet. I will wait to see what happens in terms of 
conformance profiles, whether there is a natural subdivision of the spec 
that maps to product levels. I agree it's important to enable the 
non-paying part of the community to move forward, as they have a lot of 
influence on uptake.

I'm also keeping my options open in terms of support for 2.0 in future 
product releases (other than as a subset of 3.0). At present you only 
get 3.0 features if you explicitly ask, but it's becoming a bit of a 
pain maintaining two modes of operation, especially minor details like 
format-date() returning different error codes depending on whether 3.0 
is enabled.

Michael Kay
Saxonica