[Exist-open] important question: who is using betterFORM?

[Joern T. <joe...@gm...>]

Hi,

there have been discussions to remove betterFORM from eXist-db cause it
blocks updating the Saxon lib. Unfortunately it's not just simply updating
the lib and be fine as betterFORM requires to access some internal APIs of
Saxon to do XPath statement analysis for it's validation engine. As the
Saxon API changes often from one release to another it's huge amount of
work to do this adaption over and over again. Thankfully Adam has done this
several times but claims that it'll be too much this time.

So, question is: are you using betterFORM in your applications? If so, it's
now time to speak up so we can discuss alternatives.

Thanks,

Joern