Hi Joseph,
I think, Websphere is a great technology and product suite, and
bundling XSLT 2.0 / XQuery / XPath 2.0 processors (and other things you
mentioned) with it was an innovative idea from IBM.
But I think, IBM should release its XSLT 2.0 / XQuery / XPath 2.0
processors & APIs outside Websphere as well. Following are my naive
preferences about the possible distribution policy by IBM of the mentioned
processors:
1) Freely available mentioned processors, in non-schema aware mode.
2) Make available the schema aware processors at a small charge (USD '20 -
50' per individual license). One such license, should include all of XSLT
2.0 / XQuery / XPath 2.0 processors & APIs.
I'm sure implementing 1) & 2) will have many takers.
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 7:40 PM Joseph Kesselman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been away from Xalan -- and from XSLT, and from XML for the most part
> -- for a decade now. And I'm slightly hamstrung by having been involved
> in IBM's subsequent XPath/XSLT/XQuery compiler, XTQHP, which was only
> shipped with Websphere and which few folks ever knew existed; that used a
> different architecture and I'm not sure how much of what we did could or
> couldn't be shared at this point.
>
> And of course, there's the question of finding time. The days of IBM
> paying us to contribute to this Apache project are, alas, long past; our
> contribution helped get XML bootstrapped, but now that it's sorta
> self-sustaining there's less interest in helping push it forward. So if I
> did it, I'd have to do it on personal time -- and I've already got too much
> queued up.
>
> Not that half the industry is now running after JSON and (ugh) YAML and
> the like, so there's a bit less energy/enthusiasm for XML. In fact, many of
> the XML concepts could be trivially reapplied to those just by replacing
> parser and serializer and mapping between parsed entities and
> macros/imports ... but that seems to have been happening on an ad-hoc,
> one-off basis rather than the kind of integration we were getting from the
> XML effort.
>
> So... I'd be glad to see it happen, I might be able to make some time to
> support the effort, but right now I don't think I can offer to help lead.
>
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Mukul Gandhi
