& XSLT For many years now the excellent Saxon processor has helped many of us in 
our XSLT 1.0-based solutions:

   http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.5.3/index.html

The latest XSLT 1.0 version, version 6.5.3, has a number of documented 
limitations:

   http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.5.3/limitations.html

Note on this page that the author, Mike Kay, documents "Since Saxon 6.5.3 
is now stable and generally reliable, I have no intention of removing these 
limitations."  This is entirely understandable as he focuses on XSLT 2.0, 
and I do not fault him for this stance.  On the contrary, many of us owe 
Mike a tremendous amount of appreciation for having supported the community 
with his efforts.

I'm pleased to report to the community that Mike would, indeed, consider 
being funded to create a stable 6.5.4 version and thanks to his patience 
with my persistence I have obtained from him a monetary amount that it 
would take to get the outstanding issues addressed.

This post of mine is a public appeal to share in the funding cost ... the 
more people interested in a stable XSLT 1.0 processor with known problems 
addressed, the cheaper it would be for all of us to get a new version of 
this stalwart piece of software.

Would people interested in helping to share this funding please contact me 
privately with the above subject line (I won't post the details 
publicly)?  I'll coordinate and document the sharing of the funding and the 
payment to Mike for his time and effort.  To save time, please indicate in 
your first message some amount of monetary support you are comfortable 
with.  Hopefully with enough people what we actually pay out of our pockets 
will be easily affordable.  Being an independent consultant myself, I know 
how many of us independents need to pinch pence and pennies.

HITTING REPLY WILL RESPOND TO THE LIST!  Please check your "send to" 
address before you forward your message to me.

Time is of the essence, though ... we might be able to slip in some 
schedule magic and get this issue addressed in short order.

Thank you for considering how we, as a community, can help ourselves with 
an upgrade to an excellent piece of software while keeping the author in 
mind for his efforts and time.

I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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