Re: [XSLT30] Bug 27615: any likely future action? [I18N-ACTION-403][I18N-ISSUE-394]

If by "actual plan" you mean "charter", then no, there are no actual plans.

It's too early to say whether that situation will change. I think there will be a lot of discussion about it over the next few months. The conversation has started, and there is certainly some sentiment that it's time to "declare victory". On the XSLT side there's certainly a risk that that continuing to develop the language, leaving an increasing number of implementations behind on earlier versions, is not in the best interests of interoperability. However, there may well be scope for adding new function libraries without changing any language features.

Michael Kay
Saxonica
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On 23 Feb 2015, at 18:55, Phillips, Addison <addison@lab126.com> wrote:

> Hello QT,
> 
> The I18N WG has tasked me [0] with asking about the response to our comment tracked as bug 27615 [1].
> 
> Specifically, your response ends with this paragraph:
> 
> --
> I'm closing this on behalf of the WG with the disposition "later", meaning that we will come back to it if we ever start work on a future version of the language. XSL WG hopes that this disposition is acceptable to I18N, and if so, requests that you close the bug.
> --
> 
> We would like to know if you have actual plans to work on a future version of the language or revision of the spec or if, rather, we should not expect you to be considering additional work on numeric formatting in the foreseeable future.
> 
> Thanks (for I18N),
> 
> Addison
> 
> [0] http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/403
> [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27615
> 
> Addison Phillips
> Globalization Architect (Amazon Lab126)
> Chair (W3C I18N WG)
> 
> Internationalization is not a feature.
> It is an architecture.
>

Received on Monday, 23 February 2015 23:11:49 UTC