I agree it is faster and it handles other "cool things" as cool extension.
Besides, even it is not yet a recommandation it implements XSLT 2.0 spec.
Le Lundi 22 D�cembre 2003 16:19, Carsten Ziegeler a �crit :
> Pier Fumagalli wrote:
> > I was wondering if some of you guys had experience with Saxon...
> >
> > Since I like its object model better than Xalan's, and I'm working on a
> > couple of projects requiring direct access to an XPath implementation,
> > I just wanted to doublecheck that I'm not going down a awful buggy/slow
> > road.
>
> Our experience is exactly the opposite: Saxon is in many environments
> more than twice as fast than Xalan!
>
> Carsten