Re: [wtp-incubator-dev] Xalan

[David Carver <d_a_carver@xxxxxxxxx>]

I believe we can include Xalan now, as it's been approved by IP for the 
wtp-incubator.  It's also been approved for inclusion into orbit, I'm 
just waiting for final committer rights to the orbit project.  In the 
mean time, I believe we can just include the xalan 2.7.0 jar.  The one 
thing to note, as David Williams has mentioned is that 2.9.0 of Xerces 
may interfere with IBM's JDK 1.5.   The standard distribution of Xalan 
includes Xerces which I'm going to unbundle and make it depend on the 
eclipse orbit version when I get to it.

I'll try to work those dependency issues out with the orbit version, so 
will probably need somebody with an IBM JDK to test it once I get orbit 
version going.

At the momenent it isn't looking good for Saxon support.  I have an 
outstanding email that I haven't heard back yet on from Michael Kay 
about some code contribution pedigree items.   If don't hear within the 
next couple of weeks, I'll with draw the request for inclusion in our 
project.

With that said, I would think we could still do Saxon support as a 
plugin, but host that support out on Sourceforge or another site outside 
of Eclipse.   I've seen the ECF project do this for some of their 
plugins that didn't pass Eclipse IP.   This way we can still have XSLT 
2.0 support and also test the extensibility of the xslt contribution 
mechanism.