RE: EXSLT 1.0 Proposed List

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 08:36 -0700, Bruce Rindahl wrote:
> I agree.  For instance Mozilla has indicated they would like to
> implement EXSLT but not XSLT 2.  I don't know what libxml2 is thinking
> (this is the PHP version of XLST).  Even Microsoft is currently on the
> fence on implementing XSLT 2.

I've talked with Daniel about this before.  He's currently
working in the desktop group at Red Hat, so any work that
goes into libxml2/libxslt is done purely in his free time,
or by other contributors.  He has no plans at this time to
implement XPath 2 or XSLT 2, although he is open to others
doing it in libxml2 and libxslt.

To get all the functionality of XPath 2 and XSLT 2, you
need at least a subset of XML Schema processing.  The XML
Schema implementation in libxml2 has never been complete,
and Daniel really isn't too enthused about working on it.

There are places in Gnome where XSLT is used heavily, such
as the help system.  Right now, we have no plans to switch
to XSLT 2, in part because our underlying library has no
plans to implement it.  And we do use EXSLT functionality.

Basically, if you (not you personally, Bruce, the generic
"you") are moving towards XSLT 2, and you don't need the
stuff in EXSLT, then don't use it.  But don't argue that
those of us still using XSLT 1 should stop using EXSLT
just because XSLT 2 exists.

--
Shaun