- From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:17:50 +0000
- To: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- CC: xsl-editors@w3.org
On 19/01/2011 10:58, Christopher Gutteridge wrote: > in http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#function-format-number > Seciont: 12.3 Number Formatting > Text: JDK 1.1 DecimalFormat > > The link to > http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/api/java.text.DecimalFormat.html > no longer works and without it the specification is unclear. > > I know that there's XSLT 2.0 now, but many people are still using XSLT > 1 for the next few years so we *really* need the documentation! > Thanks for the comment. The Working Group has no immediate plans to revisit the XSLT 1.0 specification or its errata (like everyone else, we are stretched for resources and rely on volunteer labour), but I'll add the comment to the list of "things that ought to be fixed" in case this situation changes. Last time I looked, although the JDK 1.1 spec was no longer at the cited location, it was still available somewhere. But that was before the Oracle acquisition. It's an object lesson in the danger of relying on the permanence of online publications. I wonder whether W3C specs are being archived anywhere indepentently of W3C itself? Michael Kay Saxonica
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