From: Matt Gushee <mgushee@...>
Date: 2002-10-22T00:39:44+09:00
Subject: Re: XML/XSLT processors - XSLT4R not working?

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:48:08PM +0900, Chris Wong wrote:
> I'm looking for a pure Ruby XSLT processor.  Stumbled across XSLT4R.  
> It looks promising, but it doesn't seem to work even for the test.xslt 
> in its test directory.  I'd appreciate some recommendations in XSLT 
> processor for Ruby.  Is there anything in Ruby similar to JAXP in Java?

I'd suggest trying the libxslt wrapper (listed as 'libxslt' in the RAA).
I haven't tried it in Ruby, but I've used the underlying C library, and
in my experience it is close to 100% conformance with the spec, and its
performance is competitive with MSXML (i.e. it's damn good).

Of course, it does depend on a C library--two, actually, since libxslt
depends on libxml--so it's less portable than a pure Ruby solution. But
it looks like precompiled binaries are now available for Windows as well
as POSIX platforms, so maybe it can be installed without too much agony
on most platforms.

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