Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: MSXML support in DocBook stylesheets

[Eric Richardson <eric.richardson@milagrosoft.com>]

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