XSL Old News

• 08 NovXSLTracer from Zvon: a debugging tool that enables to visualize the processing of an XML fileby an XSLT stylesheet. A perl script turns your XML source and your stylesheet into HTML+JavaScript pages so that your transformation can be viewed in a web browser. Also requires Saxon.
• 08 NovselectParameters by Jeni Tennison: an XSLT stylesheet to help you to make stylesheets that do dynamic client-side transformation based on parameters selected by the end user. Works on MSXML.
• 02 Nov The first XSLT-UK conference, organized by Dave Pawson and Sebastian Rahtz, will take place in Oxford on 8-9 April 2001
• 02 Nov MSXML3 final released and available for download. It now has full support for XSLT/XPath
• 02 Nov Yet another XSLT processor: Napa. It claims to be fast and does progressive transformations (free executable for Windows).
• 02 Nov XSL Formatter from Antenna House is a new XSL layout and printing software running on Windows. A 30-day free trial version is available. Note that this software is at the moment only available in Japanese.
• 27 Oct The XPath Visualiser announced: an interactive tool that highlights all nodes of a user-specified XPath expression's result-nodeset in a color-coded collapsible display of an xml document (requires MSXML3 and IE5).
• 23 Oct XSLTMark released: another XSLT benchmark and a compliance testing suite.
• 18 Oct New XSL Working Draft published. It incorporates the proposed resolution of the issues raised during Last Call. The Working Group intends to submit a revised version of this specification for publication as a Candidate Recommendation in the near future.
• 13 Oct Version 0.7 of XSLScript released. XSLScript is a terse notation for writing complex XSLT stylesheets.
• 12 Oct Sablotron is now available as an extension to PHP4. It claims to be a very fast server-side XSLT processor for Win32.
• 11 Oct Xalan-C++ v1.0 XSLT processor released.
• 10 Oct Chapter 15 of the XML Bible, XSL Formatting Objects, is available online.
• 10 Oct French translation of the XSLT1.0 Recommendation available. See also our translations page.
• 10 Oct Kevin Jones has set up an XSLT benchmark page.
• 10 Oct The new release of Unicorn XSLT Processor, Professional Edition version 1.02.16 is available (runs on Windows NT 4.0).
• 001005 XPath 1.0 Errata list updated.
• 001005 The Mozilla XSLT project (aka Transformiix) now has its own project page.
• 001004 PassiveTeX version 1.1 released.
• 000930 Microsoft release a September MSXML Beta. It claims to be a "complete implementation" of XSLT and XPath.
• 000914 PassiveTeX version 1.0, 2000/09/14 released.
• 000914 New release of xslide: XSL mode for emacs (Revision 0.2 Beta 1).
• 000825 XSL Transformations Requirements Version 1.1 is posted on W3C site.
• 000724 Announcement of XSLTC, an XSLT compiler. It takes as input an XSLT stylesheet, and generates C++ code that is expected to have the same behaviour as the source stylesheet.
• 000703 The W3C XSL Working Group is rechartered with a new charter.
• 000630 Ginger Alliance announce release 0.4 of Sablotron, which is now available under MPL/GPL license.
• 000626 Sun Microsystems announce a free XSLT compiler
• 000529 Sebastian Rahtz announces a new release of PassiveTeX, an implementation of the March 2000 draft.
• 000327 XSL enters Last Call with a new Working Draft
• 000323 LotusXSL 1.0.0 is available from alphaWorks
• 000321 Xalan-J 1.0.0 Gold Release posted to xml.apache.org/dist
• 000315 MSXML Parser V3.0 released
• 000301 New XSL working draft published
• 000126 Microsoft releases XSL to XSLT Converter 1.0. The xsl-xslt-converter.xslt style sheet updates Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 XSL style sheets to XSLT-compliant style sheets
• 000112 New XSL working draft published
• 991221 FourThought LLC announces the release of 4XSLT a Python implementation of XSLT and 4XPath an XPath processor
• 991217 XSL Tester can help you author XML and XSL documents
• 991203 Saxon 5.0 is available. It's a complete implementation of the XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0 Recommendations.
• 991117 IBM announce an XSL Editor
• 991116 XSLT and XPath become W3C Recommendations
• 991109 FOP is donated to the Apache Software Foundation.
• 991015 XSLINFO, a new XSL information site is open.
• 991011 FOP version 0.11.0 released
• 991009 a new release of XT matches the XSLT and XPath Proposed Recommendations
• 991008 XSLT and XPath are released as Proposed Recommendations
• 990822 A new release of XT is available
• 990813 XSLT and XPath enter Last Call
• 990709 A new working draft of XSLT is released. The expression language is specified in a separate working draft, XPath.
• 990708 A new release of XT is available. It implements the 990421 XSLT working draft.
• 990622 Transformis (now part of Object Design Inc.) announces Stylus, an integrated development environment for XSLT stylesheets.
• 990619 James Tauber releases FOP as open source.
• 990615 Infoteria announce iXSLT, an XSLT processor compliant with the latest public draft (990421).
• 990423 Saxon 4.2 is available. The most significant new feature is an XSL compiler. This takes an XSL stylesheet as input and generates a Java application as output.
• 990421 The third XSL working draft is released. A separate document specifies the transformation language. Public review of these Working Drafts is invited and comments should be sent to xsl-editors@w3.org
• 990406 PC Magazine Online has an article on XSL, written by Neil Randall.
• 990309 Sun and Adobe announce cash bounties for XSL FO developers - Competition cancelled on 990618
• 990213 InDelv announce alpha 0.2 of a browser which implements both the transformation and FO parts of the XSL specification; it also includes an implementation of XLink, which can be used to transclude an entire (possibly read-only) XML document intoa small stub document which just contains the link to the XSL stylesheet. Also of interest - the application logic is driven by RDF. The SAX-compliant XML parser is hot-swapable as a user preference.
• 990112 XSLP is a free XSL processor written in Java; most of the transformation part of XSL is implemented.
• 990109 Activated Intelligence demonstrate the Activated XSL Processor, an implementation of the transformation part of XSL which they use server side to generate HTML. The current release supports the older Dec. 16 working draft, but support for the Aug. 18 draft is promised soon. No support of FOs is announced.
• 990102 A new release of XT is now available. The major change in this release is that XT is now SAX-based: it uses the SAX Parser class for input and the SAX DocumentHandler class for output. It thus no longer depends on XP and can be used with any XML parser in Java that supports SAX.
• 981221 DataChannel and Microsoft announce a new XSL implementation which also has a validating parser, DOM, and schema support; there is no FO support.
• 981220 A new version of James Clark's XT is released that supports the latest 19981216 version of the XSL WD. There is no support for the previous version of the XSL WD, so stylesheets that worked with the previous version of XT will require editing to work with this version.
• 981217 LotusXSL, an experimental implementation of the Construction Rules section of the XSL working draft, is made public on IBM's AlphaWorks
• 981216 The second XSL working draft is released. Public review of this Working Draft is invited and comments should be sent to xsl-editors@w3.org
• 981112 The W3C Working Group for XSL met for three days in Chicago, IL, USA. This meeting was preceded by a joint meeting with the W3C CSS Working Group.
• 981101 A new version of FOP, written in Java.
• 981028 XSL gets the HotWired treatment.
• 980911 The W3C Working Group for XSL met for three days in Cambridge, MA, USA.
• 980825 Jérémy Calles releases the first beta of the Java-based Koala XSL processor built using the SAX 1.0 XML parser API and the FreeDOM implementation of the W3C Document Object Model.
• 980824 James Tauber announces FOP, a Formatting Object to PDF converter.
• 980819 James Clark releases first alpha version of XT, a Java-based implementation of the XSL tree construction step.
• 980818 The first Working Draft of XSL is released. This initial draft supersedes the XSL Submission. W3C issues a Press release and Testimonials from XSL WG members.
• 980722 The W3C Working Group for XSL met for three days in Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
• 980527 The W3C Working Group for XSL met for three days in Paris, France. Part of the meeting was jointly held with the W3C CSS Working Group.
• 980511 XSL Requirements Document released. This gives the entire problem domain in which XSL will be designed. Version 1 of XSL will not address all of these requirements; however it will be designed to avoid precluding these requirements.
• 980416 XSL action at WWW7 - an XSL workshop, coverage in the W3C track, and more to come in the MarkUp and Style Sheets tracks on dev day.
• 980330 News article on XSL and XML Styler Internet World

Older implementations

Older testbeds, some based on the submission rather than the XSL Working Draft:

• Koala XSL processor from Jérémy Calles. built using the SAX 1.0 XML parser API and the FreeDOM implementation of the W3C Document Object Model.
• xslj, from Henry Thompson, translates from XSL into extended DSSSL which can be understood by Jade, James Clark's DSSSL engine, which in turn can create formatted output using any of its back-end formatters (RTF, TeX, SGML, and HTML with CSS). Both the DSSSL and the 'HTML/CSS' flow objects from the original XSL submission are supported; xslj is available with source code for the experimentally inclined.
• A Technology Preview XSL Processor was available both as a stand-alone processor and as an Active-X control, which allows XML data embedded in an HTML page to be rendered using XSL. The 'HTML/CSS flow objects' from the original XSL submission were supported; this processor has now been replaced by the XSL support in IE5beta2.
• Docproc is an XSL processor written in Java. It uses a JavaScript-like language, Pnuts, instead of ECMAScript. Backends for HTML and for plain text are available; both DSSSL and HTML/CSS flow objects are supported and source is provided.

History of XSL

XSL draws on both DSSSL and CSS, (and DSSSL-O) so it inherits the history of those style sheet languages. More immediate history:

• 000328 XSL WD enters Last Call
• 000301 New XSL working draft published
• 000112 New XSL working draft published
• 991116 XSLT, XPath become W3C Recommendations.
• 991008 XSLT, XPath move to Proposed Recommendation status.
• 990813 XSLT and XPath enter Last Call
• 990709 A new working draft of XSLT is released. The expression language is specified in a separate working draft, XPath.
• 990421 The third XSL working draft is released. A separate document specifies the transformation language (XSLT).
• 981216 The second XSL working draft is published.
• 980818 The first XSL working draft is published.
• 980328 The W3C Working Group for XSL met for three days in Seattle, WA, USA right after XML 98 (yes, on a weekend) and continued their work. The following schedule of expected release dates was announced:
  • Requirements document: April 1998
  • First Working Draft of XSL 1.0: July 1998
  • Second Working Draft of XSL 1.0: November 1998
  • Third Working Draft of XSL 1.0: February 1999
  • Proposed Recommendation for XSL 1.0: May 1999
• 980324 The W3C XSL, XML and XLink (LinX?) Working Groups give an update in a plenary session of XML 98 in Seattle. More coverage of XSL on DevDay, too.
• 980316 A minor update of xslj has Jade 1.1 compatibility (so you don't need a special build of Jade anymore)
• 980216 The XSL list on mulberrytech.com starts up: there is an archive
• 980128 The W3C Working Group for XSL met for three days in San Jose, CA, USA to start work on XSL. Weekly teleconferences will be used to coordinate and track progress.
• 980126 ArborText Announces XML Styler - a GUI editor for XSL stylesheets
• 980122 The W3C Working Group for XSL is formed
• 980112 Version 0.4beta of xslj is released
• 980107 A Technology Preview XSL Processor is released by Microsoft.
• 971113 Docproc, an XSL processor from Sean Russell, can be used as a standalone converter or as a servlet
• 970916 XSL submission is covered by Mark Walter of the Seybold Report on Internet Publishing
• 970911 XSL submission is acknowledged by W3C, published as a Note
• 970827 A Proposal for XSL is submitted to W3C

Copyright  ©  1997 - 2000 W3C (MIT, INRIA, Keio ), All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply. Your interactions with this site are in accordance with our public and Member privacy statements.