[David Carlisle]
> 
> > But a job on this one, that took 30 hours took only 5 minutes in 
> > Xalan/Xerces testXSLT command-line utility.
> 
> normally msxml is faster than the java ones.
> 

But then I have a transform that takes several minutes with Xalan but
only about a second with Saxon (very informal timings).  For sure you
have to try specific problem cases with various processors to get the
best speed.

Cheers,

Tom P

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