Subject: Re: [xsl] Saxon for C/PHP/Python/etc From: "Tony Graham" <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 14:08:42 +0100 (IST) |
On Fri, October 4, 2013 2:06 am, Steve Ball wrote: > A few years ago (2009 or 2010 from memory) I asked a similar question on > the libxml2/libxslt mailing list: who would be interested in upgrading > libxml2/libxslt to XPath2/XSLT2[*]? The resounding answer is that everyone > wants it but none is willing to devote time/effort to making it happen; in > particular Daniel Veillard. In fairness, AFAICT, Daniel Veillard's paying work has moved in another direction (and to another country) compared to when libXSLT was written. > As a result I started a closed-source development myself. However, this Your LIBX* is hard to find these days: http://www.explain.com.au/libx/ > project requires significant engineering resources and the project has > stalled for the last 2 years (while I concentrate on paying work). I know the feeling and the necessity. > NB. this was in the days before KickStarter. Perhaps a KickerStarter-type > campaign would gather enough resources to restart this work? I can't remember if I said it in my talk as I'd intended, but Kickstarter, and LIBX* being pre-Kickstarter, was kicked around in the discussions that followed. As was Google Summer of Code and the potential usefulness to web browsers of a XSLT 2.0 library. It is an idea that doesn't go away (hence the reference to 'permathread' below), but who beyond the people on this list and the largely inactive people on the libXSLT list would be potential donors for a Kickstarter-like fund? > PS. a C implementation of XPath2/XSLT2 does not necessarily have to rely > on libxml2/libxslt but it is a good starting place. I've yet to be convinced that it is a good starting place provided the processor can masquerade as libxml2/libxslt for the sake of existing programs that use those libraries. > On 27/09/2013, at 11:07 PM, Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Fri, September 27, 2013 11:57 am, Adam Retter wrote: >>> After hearing Tony Graham's lightening talk at the XML Summer School I >> >> Thank you for the timely reminder. Slides, all five minutes' worth, now >> at http://www.mentea.net/resources/after-libxslt.pdf (and linked to from >> http://inasmuch.as/2013/09/27/is-there-life-after-libxslt-1/ and >> http://www.mentea.net/resources.html). >> >> Lauren Wood and Matt Biddulph helped start this cycle of the permathread Matt Patterson [1]. >> because they're interested in a libXSLT-replacement for Ruby in >> particular. This does come up in the context of people wanting a XSLT 2.0-lite, but if starting now -- and starting a Kickstarter-like campaign now -- would it be better to architect for something that could grow to full XSLT 2.0 or something that could grow to full XSLT 3.0? Regards, Tony Graham tgraham@xxxxxxxxxx Consultant http://www.mentea.net Mentea 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- XML, XSL-FO and XSLT consulting, training and programming Chair, Print and Page Layout Community Group @ W3C [1] http://www.biglist.com/lists/lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/archives/201309/msg00087.html
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