Xalan-Java and XPath 2.0

Question

If I understood it correctly, the most up-to-date version of Xalan-Java still implements XPath Version 1.0. http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/

why is so? why it has not been updated to xpath2.0? http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/

is there a similar library that implements xpath 2.0?

Answer 1

You can use saxon for xpath2.0. Xalan has prototype for it but this is not an official build, see http://www.stylusstudio.com/xsllist/200212/post70030.html