XPath and XSLT 2.0 for .NET?

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Wim ten Brink picture Wim ten Brink · Oct 6, 2009 · Viewed 46.5k times · Source

.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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Max Toro picture Max Toro · Oct 7, 2009

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:

While XML continues to be a key part of our platform going forward, we have decided not to pursue an XSLT 2.0 implementation at this time. If there is a specific XSLT task you’re trying to accomplish and are having difficulty with XSLT 1.0, please let us know and we’ll do our best to help.

This list is now maintained at github.com/maxtoroq/dotnet-xml

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