[x3d-public] X3dToES5.xslt (nashorn) deprecation?

[Don Brutzman]

On 4/11/2021 9:34 PM, John Carlson wrote:
> 
> Don,
> 
> Can we work together to bring X3dToES5.xslt up-to-date with X3DJSAIL
> class names (those without ..."Object")?

Hi John.  Apologies but I do not understand the utility of such a conversion.

a. X3dToJson.xslt makes sense as we gradually finalize the X3D JSON encoding by autogenerating and confirming correctness of an X3D JSON Schema (draft 07 is current target).

b. We have your X3DJSONLD code but, to my knowledge, we do not have any kind of codebase that matches the X3D ECMAScript language binding.

* ISO/IEC CD 19777-1:2014 V3.3 	X3D Language Bindings : ECMAScript (JavaScript)
   found at https://www.web3d.org/standards

c. People (like you) are welcome to work on anything they want.  We have worked so hard to create/autogenerate a fully rigorous X3D Unified Object Model (X3DUOM) with complete type and hierarchy information.  We are generating typesafe Java (X3DJSAIL) and typesafe Python (X3DPSAIL) already.

Not a new plan: let's do X3D JSON Schema autogeneration first, and then a matching X3D Javascript library, then update 19777-1.

d. Dick Puk and I keep finding lots of time-consuming issues to resolve with X3D4 in Mantis for the imminent ISO ballot.  This is a necessary delay, unfortunately.

Good news is that no major issues or flaws have yet been identified... we will keep working on getting things exactly right.

> This is used with old Nashorn code.  I don't know if anyone is using it,
> so it may not be worth the effort.  Our efforts are probably better
> spent on creating a node/es6x3d stylesheet/typesafe library.

Nashorn is dead.  Please advise if I can remove it completely from X3DJSAIL version control... If you need anything there, please copy/remove it.

We have been moving slowly but moving, through steps a-b-c-d above.  Other X3D4 updates await as well.  I certainly have no time for anything other than X3D4 critical path, it will keep us busy all year.

> I'm running a new version through my donlocal.sh bash script.  We shall see!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John

Thanks for your efforts.

all the best, Don
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