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mohabbati
mohabbati

Reputation: 1158

XSLT in SharePoint

As far as I know, SharePoint 2013 only supports XSLT 1.0. What will be the destiny of XSLT in SharePoint 2016? IS it possible to deprecate XSLT? If the answer is yes, what is the alternative solution for server-side rendering?

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Abel
Abel

Reputation: 57169

I agree with Michael Kay that we shouldn't try to predict the future here, but if we rephrase your question to how you can use XSLT 2.0 with SharePoint, I think the question is valid enough ;).

That said, there apparently have been third parties that make XSLT 2.0 available from SharePoint. How that works exactly, I do not know, but this tool or toolset seems to offer you the possibility of XSLT 2.0 in Sharepoint and comes with a handy suggestion to update Visual Studio to make development easier.

Whether or not you can, or want to use Corasworks to get XSLT 2.0 working is a judgement I cannot make, of course. If you can somehow just use a native .NET XSLT 2.0 (or 3.0) processor, as far as I know, you can choose from XmlPrime, Saxonica and Exselt (disclaimer, I wrote the latter, and it is still in development).

Side note: Microsoft first claimed it would support XSLT 2.0 at some point, but stated later that it would not do so in the near future, and yet later that it would probably never do so and leave it to others to implement XSLT 2.0 in .NET. This logically leads to the same response on SharePoint and XSLT 2.0, but they are somewhere on the internet.

Upvotes: 1

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