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Why don't modern web browsers support XSLT 2.0?

We are thinking of using Altova StyleVision. We can create a nice report template with it. Alton's default browser shows our work very well. However, the generated XSLT files are not supported by a modern web browser.

Any suggestions?

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Saxon CE ( http://saxonica.com/ce/index.xml ) brings XSLT 2.0 to modern browsers with Javascript enabled, so this might be the option for you. Otherwise, you will need to make sure that you run XSLT on the server and expose the result of the transformation to the browser.



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The "why" questions are always tricky, as there are usually no answers. But I believe part of the answer is that there is no good XSLT 2.0 implementation written in C or C ++ such that libxslt (the xsltproc backend) and Xalan exist for XSLT 1.0. It’s not my intention to start a pagan war, but for better or worse, most browsers are written in C or C ++.



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