Coker, Jonathan M wrote:
I do not usually post questions that could spark 'which is better' type
discussions but all my other searching of sites, mail archives, etc.
has been in vain, and
I thought if any group would have the information, it would be this
one.
I have been using Xalan, primarily for the XPath capability. I have
been hit with the question "We already have libxslt why do you want to
use Xalan?".
Pointing out that Xalan is in C++ provided some satisfaction but some
people were (apparently) looking for more. Can anyone point me to a
feature comparison
page, discussion thread, anything that discusses this topic? If you do
not want to respond to the group, please feel free to reply to me
directly with any information.
I don't know of any feature comparisons. Holger Floerke wrote an
article about transforming large documents and Xalan-C consistently has
a lower memory footprint than other processors and was relatively fast.
I can't find a copy of that article any longer, however.
Xalan-C also has wide platform and compiler coverage, although that may
not be an advantage for you.
Dave
