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Re: note on the Xpath choice
> choose
> an XPath implementation
>
By all appearances, the dominant opensource effort for XSLT from
now on will be Apache Xalan. Both OpenXML and XSL:P are being
folded into Xalan according to their authors. XSLT and XPath,
as implementations, appear to be "joined at the hip". At least
Xalan has a separate, compartmentalized set of classes for XPath.
The "Saxon" project remains, but it doesn't seem like it has much
support(?).
Unfortunately, Xalan is not finished at this time, and is not yet
useable with the Ozone DOM (as of last week).
(All of this is about politics, momentum and funding,
not integrity of technology.)
Does anyone know of open-source XPath implementations
that we have not talked about, so far?
/**
(From the XQL mailing list, it continues to
be apparent that the future XQL will be
heavily based on XPath, probably a subset
of it which eliminates the problematical "Axis"
specification and adds a few new condition and
selection things.)
*/
Best Wishes,
Ann Tecklenburg