.NET 3.5 doesn’t completely support XPATH 2.0 or XSLT 2.0, which is just too bad. Does anyone know if these two will be included and fully supported in any future .NET versions?
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.NET 3.5 doesn’t completely support XPATH 2.0 or XSLT 2.0, which is just too bad. Does anyone know if these two will be included and fully supported in any future .NET versions?
I don’t think they’ll add support for XPath 2.0 or XSLT 2.0 any time soon.
However, you shouldn’t feel bad if these are not part of the BCL, as long as you have 3rd party implementations available:
Microsoft is customer oriented. If customers don’t want it, they won’t make it.
2009-11-18: I contacted the XML team here and got this response:
This list is now maintained at github.com/maxtoroq/dotnet-xml