Saxon has better-than-average documentation, too. As a fellow who has 
become both writer and programmer, I appreciate good documentation.

Also, the one time I reported a bug on Saxon, Mike fixed it the next day 
and got the fix into the next release a week later. By comparison, when 
I've reported bugs on FrameMaker and Word, I've never even gotten an 
acknowledgement that I'd sent in a bug report, let alone a response from a 
developer. And a next-day fix is utterly unheard of in the universe of the 
giant tool companies.

That's why, for XSLT, the first tool I reach for is Saxon.

Thanks, Mike!

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)





Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> 
06/27/2005 02:08 PM
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> (IMHO) Saxon's performance far excells that of
> competing XSLT processors in the market place ..


Sometimes performance alone isn't the best feature of a product.

I do prefer Saxon 6.5.x over competing XSLT 1.0 processors for its
very up-to-the-point and clear error messages, which save a lot of
development time.

The Saxon XSLT processor family are also the champions of responsible
maintenance and very low number of bugs.


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev


On 6/28/05, Mukul Gandhi <mukul_gandhi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>  Please accept my best wishes for Saxon product.. Its
> quite nice ...
> 
> (IMHO) Saxon's performance far excells that of
> competing XSLT processors in the market place ..
> 
> Regards,
> Mukul
> 
> http://gandhimukul.tripod.com
> 
> --- Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > For those of you still using the Saxon XSLT 1.0
> > processor, there is a new
> > maintenance release 6.5.4 (the first for nearly two
> > years). See
> > http://saxon.sf.net/ for details.
> >
> > Many thanks to G Ken Holman and Crane Softwrights
> > for commissioning this
> > release.
> >
> > Michael Kay
> > Saxonica Limited
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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