Subject: Re: [xsl] Are there any free, fully-compliant XSLT/XPath 3.0 processors? From: James Fuller <james.fuller.2007@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:51:38 +0100 |
Please take the XSLT 2013 survey http://jimfuller2011.polldaddy.com/s/xslt-2013 J On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I guess I'd qualify as a "once or twice a year" user of XSLT/XPath, > but I do follow this list while trying to filter out the "interesting" > posts, just to keep an ear on the "Xground". > > As it stands, I don't think X* 3.0 will be overly attractive, although > usage of XML technologies will keep increasing in my organisation. Not > being able to play with any of the innovative features is certainly > one of the reasons. > > Not addressing any SW provider in particular: - > There are models where SW isn't OS, but you (or someone) can > still investigate it. Getting a limited (by time or functionality or quantity) > version is one way. (Any company with a reasonable ethics standard > will not abuse such an opportunity.) Some give free (or almost free) > licenses to > educational units, where students get it to know and might carry the > torch into the business world. I don't know how valuable the feedback > (bugs, feature requests,...) from non-paying users is, but this could > be an additional benefit. > > -W > > On 28/01/2013, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> I'm attempting to get some numbers Liam? >>> >>> >>> I don't know of any survey that includes those who didn't vote? >>> >> >> Any half-respectable piece of market research will try very hard to >> avoid the bias you get when you use a self-selected sample of voters. >> >> Frankly, the data you will get by putting a questionnaire on the web and >> announcing it to people who follow XML-related mailing lists is worse >> than useless. Reaching the kind of people who wrote a couple of >> stylesheets a year or two ago, run them once a month and upgrade them >> once a year is virtually impossible, and those people are probably the >> large majority of our users. >> >> Saxon for 12 years or so has been getting 300 (B1) downloads a day, and >> we have never had the faintest idea who is doing the downloading or what >> they use the software for once they get it (if anything). Nor do we know >> how many people acquire it by routes other than a SourceForge download >> (e.g., packaged with other software). We can all speculate, but we will >> never get more than 1% of these users to tell us, and the data from >> those 1% tells us nothing about the other 99%. >> >> Michael Kay >> Saxonica
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