Re: [xsl] XSLT 2.0 has arrived

["Colin Adams" <colinpauladams@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>

> Isn't it possible to use the excellent IBM ICU libraries for the encodings 
> from within Gestalt (or Eiffel)? Then you support 500+ encodings in one go.

It's theoretically possible, but I'm not going to do it.

> It is there in C and Java and it is open source.

I tried reading the C++ implementation once (when I was writing the Eiffel 
Unicode normaliztion routines - Mark Davis advised me to look at it because 
ICU has better optimization algorithms than the sample Java code he provides 
which both Mike and I have used as the starting point for our support for 
NFC, NFKD etc.). I soon gave up - I couldn't see anything but 
memory-management code, and I got lost before I could come to the meat of 
the algorithms.

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