XPath and XSLT 2.0 for .NET? [closed]

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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