EXSLT library - does anyone use it?

[Lee Kelleher]

Does anyone still use the EXSLT extension library methods?

Many of the Math and Sets functions have been broken since .NET 4.0 (as Microsoft moved around a few internal classes to new namespaces).

More details here:

http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U4-2742#comment=67-9450

Since this has largely gone unnoticed - as in there hasn't been any bugs raised and zero complaining on the forum - should we look to obsolete (then remove) the EXSLT classes from the core?

My suggestion would be to move EXSLT to a separate package download, so that they can be re-enabled for those who do still use the other methods (e.g. Dates, RegEx, Strings)

Cheers,

- Lee

[Chriztian Steinmeier]

I'd be totally okay with that - I only use the RegularExpressions and a few others occasionally - and I'm much more of a "Okay now I need this so I'll install it" guy anyway, so wouldn't have a problem with that.

/Chriztian

[Dan Diplo]

Remove them!

[Shannon Deminick]

Have added this task here:

http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U4-2836

Marked is as a breaking change and is a sub-task of 

http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U4-2288 (U4-2288 Removing obsolete code for v7)

So the next question is what lee mentioned: separate package download. Does anyone want to create this package or how do you think this should work?

[Lee Kelleher]

So the next question is what lee mentioned: separate package download. Does anyone want to create this package or how do you think this should work?

Yes, we should offer it as a separate package download. (Similar to how the "umbraco.webservices" was handled.)  I'm happy to take this on.

Cheers,

- Lee

[Shannon Deminick]

That'd be kick ass :)

I'll remove them today!

[Lee Kelleher]

For reference: I finally got around to releasing the EXSLT extension methods as a standalone package.

http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/exslt-redux

Cheers,

- Lee