Dropping Xalan1 support (was: Re: PMC report to the board.)

[Jeremias Maerki <de...@greenmail.ch>]

If you look at the maintenance branch this step has already been taken
there (well, except removing the obsolete java.org.apache.fop.tools.xslt
package). Anybody against removing that package? I don't think this can
be thought of as part of the official FOP API and shouldn't be used for
XSL tansformation anyway.

Now, it's just a matter of porting the change over to HEAD, I think.

On 20.05.2003 23:39:49 Glen Mazza wrote:
> We may not be on the same page yet with the Xalan team
> regarding the use of Xalan1J.  They dropped support of
> it around July 2001
> (http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-xalan/java/xdocs/sources/xalan/index.xml.diff?r1=1.26&r2=1.27&diff_format=h),
> but we're still coding for its use in 1.0.  (called
> via class java.org.apache.fop.tools.xslt.XSLTransform)
> 
> Jeremias and Joerg have explained the need for
> retaining XSLTInputHandler (which calls the above
> class) and TRAXInputHandler in 1.0 for reasons of
> backwards compatibility.  But I wonder if
> XSLTInputHandler should be reimplemented as a replica
> of TRAXInputHandler in 1.0.  This will still allow
> embedded Java code using XSLTInputHandler to function
> in 1.0, while at the same time dropping acceptance of
> Xalan1J.  (This change would also allow for the
> 2-class java.org.apache.fop.tools.xslt package to be
> dropped completely.)
> 
> "Xalan version 1 is no longer supported and no longer
> available from xml.apache.org." has been the Xalan
> team's position for about two years now and FOP 1.0
> may be a good time for us to start honoring it.



Jeremias Maerki


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Re: Dropping Xalan1 support

["J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>]

Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> If you look at the maintenance branch this step has already been taken
> there (well, except removing the obsolete java.org.apache.fop.tools.xslt
> package). Anybody against removing that package? I don't think this can
> be thought of as part of the official FOP API and shouldn't be used for
> XSL tansformation anyway.
> 
> Now, it's just a matter of porting the change over to HEAD, I think.

+1

J.Pietschmann



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