[Libreoffice] Are ISC/BSD-licensed contributions acceptable?

[David Tardon]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:02:18AM +0000, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 26/11/10 09:05, David Tardon wrote:
> > I think that's not possible, because some of the filters (like
> > WordprocessorML) use XSLT 2.0, which is not supported by libxslt (wasn't
> > supported the last time I looked, at least). So either we throw
> > out (or rewrite to XSLT 1.0) all XSLT 2.0 filters and declare that we
> > only support XSLT 1.0 or we're stuck with saxon (and java).
> >
> Just throwing an idea out ...
> 
> There's a lexer/parser project called Antlr that creates either Java or
> C++ back ends. They may (or may not) already have an XSLT 2 parser etc.
> 
> Is that worth investigating? If they've got it, it'll give us a tree
> "for free" that we'll then have to analyse ourselves.
> 

Not at all. XSLT _is_ XML, therefore a parser is relatively trivial
thing. What we need is XSLT 2.0 processor...

D.