From: Sean Chittenden <sean@...>
Date: 2002-10-23T13:43:49+09:00
Subject: Re: XML/XSLT processors - XSLT4R not working?

> I'm curious why there isn't a strong need to create a pure Ruby xslt
> processor based on maybe rexml?  Is it because of performance issue?

Performance is definitely the issue.  XSLT is a hugely expensive
process can take hours for _very_ large documents and extremely
complex stylesheets even when using strait C libxslt.  On the other
hand, if your documents are simple, XSLT can be nice an snappy.

As a point of reference, libxslt is exceedingly fast for XSLT
processors.  I am currently parsing the RAA xml feed, which is 656KB
in size and am applying a stylesheet to it in 0.346255 seconds using
libxslt.  Hopefully that's fast enough for most folks.  :)

> BTW, ruby-libxml won't link.  I'll notify the owner or submit a
> patch later when I have time.

You can find a link to the libxml bindings off of the rubynet.org
site or under:

http://www.rubynet.org/modules/xml/libxslt/


To the real power XML users: variables/parameters are coming soon.

-sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden