Re: [ANNOUNCE] XSLT-process 2.2 available

[Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>]

burton@openprivacy.org (Kevin A. Burton (burtonator)) writes:

> Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > burton@openprivacy.org (Kevin A. Burton (burtonator)) writes:
> >
> > > Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > >
> > > >     I would bet good money that Xalan will not compile on GCJ.  It might
> > > >     require some modifications to get working.  I wanted to spend some time
> > > >     documenting the difference between GCJ and JDK 1.4 and will do that in a
> > > >     month or so when I port over NewsMonster.
> > > >
> > > > Is anyone interested in trying Xalan in GCJ and seeing if it does work?
> > > >
> > > > We can't consider XSLT-process as a legitimate part of the free software world
> > > > if it needs JDK to run.  Fixing this ought to be the highest priority.
> > >
> > > Give me a little time... it is on my list of things to do but I need about 3-4
> > > weeks to get around to it.
> > >
> > > Getting Xalan working on GCJ and a Free Software environment is of high priority
> > > for me too.  Very high priority...
> >
> > Out of interest: Why aren't you just using libxml/libxslt from the GNU
> > project?
> <snip/>
> 
> A number of reasons... Xalan and Xerces are literally the best XML/XSLT impls I
> have ever played with.  They also support an advanced plugin/extension API and I
> can do really amazing things with them under Java.
> 
> As is the case Java is not Free Software which makes the situation bad.  For a
> while there I was taking a balanced approach (this was a decision I made 5 years
> ago btw) and I think it is the perfect example of why people should NEVER use
> non-free software.
> 
> My current goals are to move go GCJ and encourage SUN to do the right thing when
> it comes to Java and make it Free Software.
> 
> This is a *big* move for me as I have use a lot of the libraries under Jakarta
> (I used to be a fulltime developer there) and a lot of them require code from
> the standard JDK.
> 
> Of course part of my migration to GCJ is going to be working on the stdlib so
> that I can compile complex appls like Xalan on GCJ.

Remember that GNU has the ClasspathX project which has the GNU-JAXP
implementation. We don't yet have XSLT but I plan to write a GNU-JAXP
wrapper (assuming GCJ) for libxslt.


Nic