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Re: [wtp-incubator-dev] Xalan

David M Williams wrote:

/... 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. ..../

Care will be needed here, as there are new IP rules this year that
state, briefly, that anything that a project depends on needs to have
IP review ... whether its redistributed or not! This was put in place
specifically for cases where people were by-passing the Eclipse IP rules,
especially for cases where the third party code was required to use the
Eclipse code.

If it's a very general pre-req, such as "the end user needs to add some XSL processor" and there are some Eclipse IP passed choices (such as Xalan) then we are probably ok, but I'm just noting this here to note the limitations, and that we'll need to
re-read the rules closely and (still) submit the required IP information.
To implement an XSLT framework that is extensible, doesn't require the use of Saxon, as we can implement that framework with just Xalan support and XSLT 1.0 as the default distribution. With that said, we might consider developing the XSLT 2.0 for saxon as a seperate project that just acts as any other plugin. In this way, it's just a plugin that uses the framework and the framework doesn't depend on it.

Dave



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