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Jacoby, Peter R. wrote:
Interesting and commendable, but it's important to note that this is free-as-in-beer, not as in speech. It is very much closed source. I could see using this to test the relative conformance or performance of different engines, but for actual production use I feel much safer with a genuine free-as-in-speech parser. I've managed to find bugs in every single XML parser and XSLT transformer I've ever used, and this has led me to a great appreciation for software that enables me to fix the bug and/or to report it with some hope it will be fixed in the future.
Re: [xsl] AltovaXML Parser
Subject: Re: [xsl] AltovaXML Parser From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:57:49 -0400 |
Jacoby, Peter R. wrote:
I recently noticed that Altova, the makers of XML Spy, have released their XSLT parser as a free stand-alone component to be used in application development.
Interesting and commendable, but it's important to note that this is free-as-in-beer, not as in speech. It is very much closed source. I could see using this to test the relative conformance or performance of different engines, but for actual production use I feel much safer with a genuine free-as-in-speech parser. I've managed to find bugs in every single XML parser and XSLT transformer I've ever used, and this has led me to a great appreciation for software that enables me to fix the bug and/or to report it with some hope it will be fixed in the future.
-- o;?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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