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Re: MSXML support in DocBook stylesheets
Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 03:06:05PM +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote:
>
>> Daniel Veillard wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> MSXML is probably fastest XSLT implementation around (not
>>>> completely true System.Xml.Transform in .Net is even faster)
>>>> and I would like to
>>>>
>>> Can I challenge this claim ? I'm in a mood for a fight.
>>>
>> Of course you can, but for safety and to prevent flame-wars I used
>> word "probably". ;-)
>>
>
> Yup, seen it :-)
>
>
>> I personally appreciate your xsltproc, but on my DocBook documents
>> it is ~ 50% slower than MSXML4. I'm not using latest version of
>> xsltproc with new XPath optimizations, my current version is
>>
>> Using libxml 20413, libxslt 10010 and libexslt 10010
>>
> [...]
>
>> If new version of xsltproc beats MSXML, then there are my
congratulations.
>>
>>
>
> Well, I can't tell, I don't have a version of Windows, and don't
> intend to buy one. It also seems Igor haven't updated the binaries
> to the latest version, but I would expect them soon apparently he's
> working on it: http://www.fh-frankfurt.de/~igor/projects/libxml/
>
>
>> OTOH to be honest, I'm mostly using Saxon because I need DocBook
>> XSL specific extensions.
>>
>
> Damn, maybe I should give them a higher priority.
Is there an overview or something that tells how to write extensions for
the xsltproc engine? can it be written in python or only C/C++?
Eric