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Re: Which Saxon Version?
- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab dot unc dot edu>
- To: Mark Johnson <mrj at debian dot org>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:01:07 -0500
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Which Saxon Version?
- References: <15522.3605.617925.259462@mcgarrett.adsl.duke.edu>
At 1:23 PM -0500 3/27/02, Mark Johnson wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I need to update the Debian saxon package, and am wondering if version 7.0 is
>the best bet.
>
>Does anyone have experience with Saxon 7, as compared to, say, Saxon 6.5x?
>
No, absolutely not. Saxon 7 is an *experimental* implementation of
the unfinished *draft* of XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0, and it's only a partial
implementation at that. According to the main Web page, "The latest
version is version 7.0. This is an experimental (and incomplete)
implementation of the XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 working drafts. Since
neither the specifications nor the code are yet stable, this version
is suitable only for experimental use." Saxon 6.5.1 is "The currently
recommended version of the full Saxon product."
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