From: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] XSLT-process 2.2 available
Date: 18 Jan 2003 02:28:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87znpzyyxa.fsf@pooh-sticks-bridge.tapsellferrier.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28yxktidg.fsf@openprivacy.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-18 2:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-08 17:40 [ANNOUNCE] XSLT-process 2.2 available Ovidiu Predescu
2003-01-09 23:13 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-10 2:21 ` Ovidiu Predescu
2003-01-11 0:21 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-11 20:58 ` Ovidiu Predescu
2003-01-15 6:14 ` Kevin A. Burton (burtonator)
2003-01-18 0:47 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-17 5:15 ` Kevin A. Burton (burtonator)
2003-01-18 1:51 ` Nic Ferrier
2003-01-17 6:12 ` Kevin A. Burton (burtonator)
2003-01-18 2:28 ` Nic Ferrier [this message]
2003-01-17 15:18 ` Kevin A. Burton (burtonator)
2003-01-18 4:58 ` Ovidiu Predescu
2003-01-19 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-19 5:42 ` Ovidiu Predescu
2003-01-20 0:50 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-20 15:54 ` md5i
2003-01-20 16:40 ` Ovidiu Predescu
2003-01-20 20:08 ` Jason Rumney
2003-01-21 18:18 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-22 7:29 ` Kevin A. Burton (burtonator)
2003-01-25 19:22 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-24 1:18 Mark Wielaard
2003-01-25 19:22 ` Richard Stallman
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