I would throw my support to saxon as well, as well as xslt 2.0 it would give
xquery, possibility to upgrade to the non-free saxon? would give xml-schema
supported transformations, Michael Kay seems to have begun aggressively
optimizing Saxon so I think it competes pretty well with the others in the
market for speed, etc.

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen

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Fra: Bruce D'Arcus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Emne: [xml-dev] XSLT processor, language (was Re: [xml-dev] open office
filter - extension functions, processor)



On Jan 6, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Matthew L. Avizinis wrote:

> Also, just now I noticed that in the 2.0 program/classes folder that 
> _both_ an xt.jar and a xalan.jar are present.  You are indicating that 
> Xalan is now used by default?  How can I test/verify this?  (OOo xslt 
> filter debug information is noticeably lacking, i.e. xsl:message or 
> processor debug dump options, so I'm wondering how this is possible.)

I have two questions about the XSLT support:

The big one is, why is OOo using a Java-based XSLT processor?

At the bibliographic project (of which I am the co-project lead) we 
have done a lot of work with XSLT, but it has been suggested to us it 
is a bad idea to base production code on XSLT because of the Java 
dependency. That seems like a rather big problem to introduce for 
unclear benefit (there are C-based alternatives that are equally 
viable).

And actually, if we're going to use a Java processor, I suggest it 
ought to be Saxon, which is not only an excellent XSLT 1.0 processor, 
but also adds support for XSLT 2.0.

Any possibility of revisiting this issue then?

Bruce

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