RE: [xsl] linkedin discussion of "can you sell an XSLT?"

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Some kind of archive format would be really good - is 
> anything in the pipeline for 2.1?
> 
> Something simple like:
> 
> <xsl:include href="library.sar"/>
> 
> where library.sar is "stylesheet archive", a standard zip 
> with some kind of meta pointing to the primary stylesheet.
> 

We haven't done any serious work on this yet, but it's tentatively on the
agenda. Not so much an archive format as such, but rather, language changes
to make separate compilation of modules a realistic proposition. At the
moment it's a non-starter, because almost anything you assume to be true
when you compile a library module can be overridden when you import it from
a new top-level module.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay