Just curious: Is anyone actively maintaining Xalan these days?

[Joseph Kesselman]

<div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt" ><div dir="ltr" >I burned out while trying to support IBM's internal version (and some of IBM's internal successors, which never saw as much exposure as they deserved) and moved on to other projects, and the current JSON/YAML mania has pulled attention away from XML (though putting front/back-ends on Xalan to handle those would be pretty trivial), but I'm still interested...</div>
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[Gary Gregory]

I RM'd the 2.7.2 release years ago. I know there are patches waiting to be
tested... it just has not been a priority for me, unfortunately. So I think
it would be fair to say that it is not being actively maintained, but I
would jump back in if I had the need. There is also very little knowledge
on how to build and which branch means what. I've asked many times on this
ML for help and all I got was crickets.

Gary

Post by Joseph Kesselman
I burned out while trying to support IBM's internal version (and some of
IBM's internal successors, which never saw as much exposure as they
deserved) and moved on to other projects, and the current JSON/YAML mania
has pulled attention away from XML (though putting front/back-ends on Xalan
to handle those would be pretty trivial), but I'm still interested...
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[Roger Leigh]

Post by Gary Gregory
I RM'd the 2.7.2 release years ago. I know there are patches waiting to
be tested... it just has not been a priority for me, unfortunately. So I
think it would be fair to say that it is not being actively maintained,
but I would jump back in if I had the need. There is also very little
knowledge on how to build and which branch means what. I've asked many
times on this ML for help and all I got was crickets.

There are also outstanding patches to apply from FreeBSD:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/textproc/xalan-c/files/


https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/textproc/xalan-c/files/patch-src_xalanc_PlatformSupport_XalanLocator.hpp?revision=401253&view=markup

or Homebrew:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/xalan-c.rb


https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/formula-patches/master/xalan-c/xerces-char16.patch

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/formula-patches/master/xalan-c/locator-system-id.patch

and they also exist in Debian and other Linux distributions patchsets as
well. Xalan is not usable without these bugfixes.

A point release with just these fixes would be appreciated. It needs
updating for current platforms and the current Xerces-C++ release.


Additionally, after strugging to build it at all on Unix (the wrapped
autoconf build is very inflexible, with options not being used
appropriately in autoconf itself), and on Windows with very outdated
project files, I reimplemented the whole build system in CMake to allow
it to be built easily on all platforms:

https://github.com/rleigh-codelibre/xalan-c/commits/cmake-build

Being able to build it is a prerequisite for being able to effectively
maintain it. This matches and integrates with the CMake support I have
already contributed to Xerces-C++.

I'd love to be able to contribute this for inclusion upstream, with any
appropriate revisions required. But it does need someone to review and
merge it.


Regards,
Roger

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[Nicolas Grégoire]

There are also outstanding patches to apply [...]

I found a bunch of security vulnerabilities in Xalan-C, and I'd be glad
to report them if the project gets active again...

Regards,
Nicolas

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[Mukul Gandhi]

Nice to see mail from you, Joseph. I'm keen to participate in XSLT 2.0 and
3.0 work at Xalan. It'll be great, if IBMers would work actively on these
new things, as they used to do in early days of Xalan.

Post by Joseph Kesselman
I burned out while trying to support IBM's internal version (and some of
IBM's internal successors, which never saw as much exposure as they
deserved) and moved on to other projects, and the current JSON/YAML mania
has pulled attention away from XML (though putting front/back-ends on Xalan
to handle those would be pretty trivial), but I'm still interested...
______________________________________
"Your data is important to us. Please stay on the port, and your
connection will be accepted by the next available thread."