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Re: XSLT performance under Linux


It seems fully compliant with XSLT 1.0; the subset I was referring to were
Michael Kay's extensions, which don't seem to be completely matched, but as
this isn't Saxon that's not terribly surprising.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Veillard" <daniel@veillard.com>
To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT performance under Linux


> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:30:26AM +0200, Mattias Konradsson wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I would recommend working with the xsltproc engine. It's C++ based,
> > supports
> > > a healthy subset of the Saxon parser, and is fast. I had something of
a
> > > jury-rigged system where I was calling saxon as a jar from the command
> > line
> > > (invoked from an `` expression in perl) and my system was crawling
despite
> > > being on a top of the line computer. I replaced it with xsltproc, and
it
> > was
> > > a couple of orders of magnitude faster. It should be in most recent
Linux
> > > distros, though it's also up on Source Forge.
> > >
> > > -- Kurt Cagle
> >
> > Cool, just a couple of questions before I start fiddling around with a
new
> > parser :)
> >
> > 1. Is there any performance comparision between it and other parsers,
> > roughly?
>
>   Grab a copy of the German IX magazine from April 2002 there is some
> comparisons in the "Schnell XML" article.
>
> > 2. What's a healthy "subset", what doesn't it support? I must have
support
> > for almost the full XSLT spec
>
>   yes
>
> > + that it needs to be able to handle iso-8859-1 properly for output
encoding
> > and params passed to it. Sablotron gave me some angst in this
department.
>
>   output encoding yes, for parameters, it will take XPath expressions
> encoded in UTF8
>
> Daniel
>
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