370173 - Implement XSLT 2.0 support

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XSLT, defect)

Description

[Vyacheslav Sedov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

Implement XSLT 2.0 support

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make xml with stylesheet link to valid xslt 2.0 with xslt 2.0 specific functions or elements
2. open in mozilla

Actual Results:  
error message

Expected Results:  
xhtml generated by XSLT 2.0 template

maybe we can use Saxon 8B for it? this future really can help Firefox spread corporate desktops

Comment 2

[Scott A. Colcord]

IE appears to be making this a priority:
http://blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam/archive/2007/01/29/xslt-2-0.aspx

Comment 3

[Scott A. Colcord]

A clarification; that blog was from the MS XML team, not the IE team.  But it stands to reason that if the former implements it, the latter is likely to use it.

Comment 4

[Manfred Staudinger]

Colin Paul Adams would be interested implementing XSLT 2.0 for Firefox; see
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=625918
but his post is still without any answer! Adams is the author of the Gestalt 
XSLT 2.0 interpreter (see http://gestalt.sourceforge.net).

Comment 5

[Pablo]

Hi peter

I'm trying to reproduce old bugs to see if we can resolve some.

Due to Firefox having changes after so many years, maybe this problem doesn't happen anymore. I'm wondering if this can be resolved. Do you know?

thanks

Comment 6

[Minh Nguyễn]

This is a feature request rather than a bug report. As far as I can tell, XSLT 2.0 hasn’t been implemented in Firefox yet.

http://web.archive.org/web/20210124131922/https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XSLT_2.0
https://stackoverflow.com/a/6282877/4585461

Comment 7

[Arc Riley]

XSLT 2.0 was published about 20 years ago and has been a W3C recommended standard for 14 years.

XSLT 3.0 became the W3C recommended standard 4 years ago.

It doesn't appear that any serious work has been put into Mozilla's XSLT support for at least 15 years, and even then was only minor bugfixes.

Comment 8

[Peter Van der Beken [:peterv]]

We have no plans to implement XSLT 2.0 (and neither do other browsers afaik).