January 11, 2005

<XSLT:Blog/> welcomes Jeroen Frijters as the newest member of the"Legends of the XSLT Community"

As per my last post.

Reason #1 - It's my damn blog and I will add whomever I damn well please ;)

Ok, that was a joke... kinda.

The real reason is that because of IKVM.NET we have Saxon.NET. Nothing I have done beyond adding a few hacks here and there and locating a couple extra open-source libraries (which anybody with half a brain could have done) to make things work outside of the Java infested, errrr, ummmmm..... hmmm... can't think of a way out of this one... well, anyway...

When Pieter and I first started the Saxon.NET project and Pieter located and pointed me at the IKVM.NET project (I had seen the project but was not aware there were any bits to play around with... Pieter discovered the existence of such bits, pointed me to them, and within 48 hours of hacking at the Java source code and locating a couple extra support libraries the first Saxon.NET build came into reality) it took a bit more than just a couple of hacks to get the first couple of Saxon.NET builds out the door. But thats no longer the case. While there still exists a few "minor" hacks to get the project to compile and run (problems with URI handling... see this post on the Saxon.NET project blog for more info) for the most part you can take the latest Saxon source and within a few hours have a living, breathing Saxon.NET build. Hows that possible? Jeroen Frijters, thats how.

Welcome Jeroen! Thank you for giving us IKVM.NET! :)