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Subject: Re: Which engine? (RE: JavaScript and XSL) From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:28:53 -0600 (MDT) |
Ben Robb wrote: > XT fell back (because James Clark was a little busy editing a > couple of the w3c specs *grin*, and as far as I know no one took up his > offer to finish it). http://4xt.org/ is home to a project to provide support and development for XT, but IMHO their priorities seem to be a bit backward. They seem to favor feature bloat and general discussion instead of aggressive development of bug fixes, conformance, and filling in the gaps, like all the silently ignored errors, lazy variable evaluation, and source code & API documentation. Kudos and many thanks to James for making such an efficient, free XSLT processor that many of us have been able to build a business around, but I for one was rather disappointed when it took over 6 months from the last release to get an announcement that his official development had ceased. My company cannot afford the risks associated with a 3rd party product whose support is floundering. We moved to SAXON recently, in spite of the slight, but noticeable, performance hit, mainly because of the robustness of the product --in particular, its support for keys and proper HTML output when indent="yes", something not even the latest MSXML can achieve-- but also because Mike Kay did a pretty good job documenting the code and he is still very actively making improvements to the product. I would hate to have to argue with people about the need for xsl:key, namespace::, and where not to add whitespace in HTML output, when their priorities are creating Unix-like shell add-ons, XHTML output handlers, CSV-to-result-tree-fragment features, etc. I don't think these things are bad ideas, but one person's requirement for productivity is another person's toy... if XT is good enough for you as-is, these things are great new features. If it's not good enough, these things are annoying deviances from more productive development. </rant> :) - Mike ____________________________________________________________________ Mike J. Brown, software engineer at My XML/XSL resources: webb.net in Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.skew.org/xml/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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