Moving XSLT from 1.0 to 2.0?

[Gary Gregory]

I think researching these options in more depths and presenting your
results here is a fine idea :)

Gary

Hi devs,
Looking at the post 'Apache may Archive Xalan' [1], I found a message from
"XSLT 2.0 is so different from 1.0 inside the language that you’ll get
next to no benefit from the XSLT 1.0 foundations. Instead, go find a nice
open source XQuery implementation and adapt that to XSLT 2.0. Here’s one,
http://mxquery.org/
Or as has been discussed, use an XPath 2.0 like pychopath. It’s probably a
couple of months work to write XQuery on top of XPath 2.0 support, and
maybe another 6 months to get XSLT 2.0. Writing XSLT 2.0 on top of XSLT 1.0
is going to easily be 2 years work, if not more."
What dou you think about it?
Do you agree with his approach?
Sincerely,
Samuel Queiroz
[1]
http://intellectualcramps.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/apache-may-archive-xalan/

[Samuel Queiroz]

Hi devs,

Looking at the post 'Apache may Archive Xalan' [1], I found a message from
John Snelson that says:

"XSLT 2.0 is so different from 1.0 inside the language that you’ll get next
to no benefit from the XSLT 1.0 foundations. Instead, go find a nice open
source XQuery implementation and adapt that to XSLT 2.0. Here’s one, for
instance (no connection to me):

http://mxquery.org/

Or as has been discussed, use an XPath 2.0 like pychopath. It’s probably a
couple of months work to write XQuery on top of XPath 2.0 support, and
maybe another 6 months to get XSLT 2.0. Writing XSLT 2.0 on top of XSLT 1.0
is going to easily be 2 years work, if not more."

What dou you think about it?
Do you agree with his approach?

Sincerely,
Samuel Queiroz

[1]
http://intellectualcramps.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/apache-may-archive-xalan/