Steve Muench has
responded, on behalf of the XSL Working Group, to calls
for unification of commonly used XSLT extensions.
Muench said that the implementors of the most popular
XSLT processors and members of the XSLT Working Group are
aware of the issues, and are investigating approaches that
future versions of XSLT could take to improve matters.
He promised that the soon-to-be rechartered XSLT group
would address the issues:
We plan to proceed with the specifics of addressing
as many of the concerns as possible, in a
"biggest-bang-for-the-buck"
priority order, as an important part of
our new charter. Discussions
among XSLT users on these email lists
regarding what are the most
important problems to tackle first are
clearly of value to us as
input to this process.
However, no indication has been given as to how soon
these issues will be tackled.
One hopes that this reponse to the concerns of the
community will also
encourage action in the areas of packaging and XML processor
interoperability, currently receiving some
attention on XML-DEV.