From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com]
Sent: 04 February, 2007 19:24
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Microsoft XML Team blog: XSLT 2.0
It seems that no-one has drawn the attention of the list to
http://blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam/archive/2007/01/29/xslt-2-0.aspx
Key points:
"[Microsoft's] users have made it very clear that they want
an XSLT 2.0
implementation once the Recommendation is complete. A team
of XSLT experts
is now in place to do this... The XSLT team will be putting
out Community Technology Previews (CTP) with the XSLT 2
functionality and appropriate tooling as the implementation
matures. The eventual release date and ship vehicles (e.g. a
future version of .NET or a standalone release over the
Web) have not been determined..."
"Those who urgently need an implementation of that runs in
the .NET environment may wish to check out the Saxon open
source project or the schema-aware commercial version
produced by Saxonica"
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
What I found interesting about the announcement was that they pointed
people to an open source and commercial product who urgently need an
XSL 2.0 implementation. This is a significant change in culture at
Microsoft. Most people who urgently needed an XSL 2.0 implementation,
are already are using Saxon .NET, thanks much for the port Saxonica.
What I would like to see though, is Saxonica and Microsoft working
together to develop a plugable XSL infrastructure, like is available
in the Java world. So when XSL 3.0 comes around, one can swap out
implementations without having to rewrite code.
Andy.
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