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>> I don't know of an open source XSLT 2 processor that's easily used on >> Linux from Perl. Saxon is the nearest, and you can get reasonable >> performance if you run it with nailgun, which keeps a spare JVM started >> all the time to avoid the startup cost, but it will still run in a >> separate process. A few people have tried moving libxml towards XSLT 2, >> but have not collaborated with each other, and in any case it'd probably >> be better to start with getting XSLT 2 (and 3) into webkit. > > It seems in general XSLT hasn't received that much attention in > contrast to XQuery. Might well be because of all the database > approaches in which XQuery is naturally predominant as an > SQL-replacement. > Depends whether you mean user attention or implementor attention. I reckon XSLT is used about 10 times as much as XQuery (*). On the implementation side, everyone and their grandmother implemented XSLT 1.0, but justifying the investment in implementing XSLT 2.0 has proved much tougher. There are in fact 7 or 8 implementations of XSLT 2.0, which is a lot more than for many other popular programming languages, but there is a major gap in coverage in the PHP/Lamp space covered by libxml. Basically that's an area where people expect their software to be free, and I have yet to understand how demand for free software translates into supply. Michael Kay Saxonica (*) based on metrics such as google searches, book sales, StackOverflow questions, etc etc.
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