Future of STX in Orbeon?

> What is the likely future of STX in Orbeon?
>
> I notice that with the XSLT processor page falling off the documentation
> site [1] and onto the wiki [2][3], the page lost the section on STX.
>
> I also notice that Orbeon 3.8 will include Saxon 9.1 [4].
>
> I have a need to extract metadata from XML files that could be up to 20 MB
> in size.  Separately, I need to process the files to reduce them to
> something more manageable to use as input for another transform (e.g., a
> current 21 MB file reduces to less than 3 MB).
>
> STX was looking like a good way to do those tasks in Orbeon, but while I
> don't know when -- if ever -- the project would move to a newer version of
> Orbeon, STX isn't looking so good if it is to be sidelined in future
> versions of Orbeon.
>
> If STX has a limited future in Orbeon, then I think I'd be better off
> using the 'oxf:external-saxon' processor [5] with my own copy of Saxon
> 9.1.  (Is there any guidance on how to configure Orbeon to find the jars
> for the external Saxon?)
>
> Regards,
>
>
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> [1] Sidebar points to
> http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/xslt-jaxp-processors
> [2] http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/processors-xslt
> [3] http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/processors-xslt-jaxp [4]
> http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/release-orbeon-forms-38#TOC-Migration-to-Saxon-9.1
> [5]
> http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/processors-xslt-jaxp#TOC-Processor-names
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> On Thu, Apr 22 2010 22:58:43 +0100, [hidden email] wrote:
>> Here, we haven't used STX in a long time, and have no plans to do so
>> in the near future. But I wouldn't want to discourage you use STX if
>> this is the right solution for you. The layer we have in Orbeon Forms
>> to support STX is pretty thin:
>
> It's not that I have a particular attachment to STX: I don't.  I was
> asking about STX because up until you changed your website (last week?)
> it was looking like the best supported solution for getting a small
> amount of XML out of a large uploaded XML file or cutting down the XML
> file.
>
> So what is the best, most future-proof way of doing what I want?  I'll
> entertain all options, including massaging the uploaded file in PHP if
> necessary.
>
> Regards,
>
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