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Subject: RE: [Fwd: [xsl] Upgrading Saxon XSLT 1.0 support addressing known limitations] From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:42:32 +0100 |
> To be honest, I'd be a lot more interested in doing the work myself or > as part of a team than in paying somebody else to do it. Most of the work, of course, is not in fixing the small number of known bugs (the code changes are already applied) but in resurrecting all the regression tests, running them, and identifying which of the differences in results are significant, and which are an accident of all the environmental changes that have happened over the last couple of years like changes in DOM implementations - and then deciding which of those accidents needs further changes made. I'm not sure that a release that simply built a new JAR file without achieving that level of quality assurance would be of much value to the community - otherwise I'd happily donate the few hours that it would take. There'd be a strong risk that the new version might introduce more problems than it solves. There are also lots of little things to be done like checking the changes that have been made to the JAXP specifications that have been made over the years (for example, there is now more precise definition of "errors" versus "warnings") and seeing which of these changes could or should be reflected in a new release - which depends on a rather fine judgement of the benefits of conforming to the latest specs versus the benefits of leaving things as they are. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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