Re: [xsl] second implementation of XSLT 2.0?

[Elliotte Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frans Englich wrote:

> There are advancing XSL-T implementations as mentioned in this thread, but I 
> don't see how running a transform or two with each engine answers the 
> questions of interest: whether they are interoperable, and that the 
> specification is implementable.


The W3C has never been the best organization for test suites and 
interoperability. For instance they do not require even one complete 
implementation before advancing to REC, only that each feature be 
independently implemented. It is possible for a W3C spec to be actively 
self-contradictory as long as different implementations implement 
different internally consistent subsets.

Different working groups and specs have different informal criteria for 
this. Some WGs produce very reliable test suites and require 100% 
passage. Other produce no test suite at all. And still others are 
somewhere in between. Most groups including the XPath/XSLT/XQuery group 
are improving their process over time--XPath 1.0 had no test suite at 
all--but they aren't perfect yet.

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