Rationale

Unlike some other bodies, ISO does not require any "reference" implementation to be developed in support of a standard it publishes. The so-called skeleton implementation was mothballed as no longer maintained in late 2020, and the main XSLT implementation at present is SchXslt. Once ISO approved the work for a new edition of the standard, it seemed useful to have another implementation, in a query language not as yet defined by the standard, to support and inform this work. The author has also been a keen advocate of further Schematron implementations at previous community meetups[meetups], and a further implementation of course introduces more choice and options for the schema author and end user alike.