Re: [ANNOUNCE] XSLT-process 2.2 available

[Ovidiu Predescu]

On Thursday, Jan 9, 2003, at 15:13 US/Pacific, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     - Both JDK 1.3 and 1.4 are supported.
>
> JDK is not free software.  Can XSLT-process work with a free Java
> platform instead?

I haven't tested this. If the free Java platform has the necessary 
support, I don't see any problem for Java portion of XSLT-process to 
run on it.

> (How does Java relate to this, anyway?)

Emacs acts as a front-end for the XSLT debugger written for the Saxon 
and Xalan XSLT processors. Pretty much like how Emacs is a front-end 
for debuggers like GDB or other proprietary debuggers.

>     - MacOS X is now a supported platform, in addition to Linux and 
> Windows
>     2000.
>
> Windows is a platform, but Linux is just a kernel.  The platform you
> are thinking of is basically the GNU system, plus Linux.  Would you
> please call this platform "GNU/Linux", not just "Linux"?  The GNU
> Project needs to get credit for its work, in order to recruit
> people to work with it now.
>
> See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html for more explanation.

Yes, I know about this distinction. I'm sorry for the misuse of the 
word, I'll be more careful in the future.

Best regards,
Ovidiu
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