Re: [Exist-open] installing xsltforms on eXist 5.2

[Craig B. <cra...@ma...>]

> On Mar 1, 2021, at 12:43 AM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe...@gm...> wrote:
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> That's older than what the package installed. I think I need at least 629 because that's when support for AVT's came in.

Version 1.3 is not older than version 0.1 in any versioning scheme I've ever seen.

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> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 6:51 PM Craig Berry via Exist-open <exi...@li...> wrote:
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> > On Feb 26, 2021, at 9:27 AM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe...@gm...> wrote:
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> > Next question. How do I upgrade to a more recent XSLTForms release - at least 629 rather than 594 which is on the package. 
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> Never used it myself, but it looks like what's available online via Package Manger is from 2014, i.e., a very old version. It lists both 565 and 0.1 as its version numbers, which sound like Subversion revision number and actual version number, respectively. My guess would be that the repository from which that package is built is no longer maintained.
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> There appears to be a repository here:
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> https://github.com/eXist-db/xsltforms-xar
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> that has version 1.3.  So you could try building that and then just installing the resulting XAR via package manager like you would do for any locally-developed package. 
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> I don't know who owns the exist-db.org/apps extension delivery mechanism or why it would be serving such an old version.
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