Re: [wtp-incubator-dev] Xalan

[Jesper Steen Møller <jesper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Carver wrote:
> David M Williams wrote:
> > If it's a very general pre-req, such as "the end user needs to add 
> > some XSL processor"
> > and there are some Eclipse IP passed choices (such as Xalan) then we 
> > are probably ok,
> > but I'm just noting this here to note the limitations, and that we'll 
> > need to
> > re-read the rules closely and (still) submit the required IP 
> > information.
> To implement an XSLT framework that is extensible, doesn't require the 
> use of Saxon, as we can implement that framework with just Xalan 
> support and XSLT 1.0 as the default distribution.   With that said, we 
> might consider developing the XSLT 2.0 for saxon as a seperate project 
> that just acts as any other plugin.   In this way, it's just a plugin 
> that uses the framework and the framework doesn't depend on it.
The validator and source editing features will still support XSLT 2.0, 
and I guess we could supply an external launcher which just spawns a 
process using an externally supplied Saxon (wouldn't do debugging, just 
transforms)

-Jesper
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