XML News from Tuesday, September 14, 2004

GotDotNet has released EXSLT.NET 1.1, a .NET library that implements 65 EXSLT extensions to XSLT from these modules:

• Dates and Times
• Common
• Math
• Random
• Regular Expressions
• Sets and Strings

EXSLT.NET library provides 13 unique extension functions of its own. New functions in this release include:

• str:encode-uri()
• str:decode-uri()
• random:random-sequence()
• dyn2:evaluate()
• date2:day-name()
• date2:day-abbreviation(),
• date2:month-name()
• date2:month-abbreviation()

EXSLT.NET is published under the GOTDOTNET WORKSPACES COMMERCIAL DERIVATIVES LICENSE, which Oleg Tkachenko says is an open source license, though I don't see it listed as one by the Open Source Initiative. IANALL (I am not a license lawyer) but the patent clauses probably disqualify this license from being true open source.