Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP, Xerces, Xalan From: Anil Madhavapeddy (anil <email protected>)
Date: 01/08/01

On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:39:11PM +0300, Flying wrote:
> I think that Xerces and Xalan are much more powerful than expat and
> Sablotron, currently used as base for DOM XML and XSLT modules. For
> example Xalan fully implements W3C XSLT standard, while Sablotron is still
> in beta. Both Xalan and Xerces are cross-platform, open source and free,
> so they are very suitable to PHP philosophy.
>

It's definitely got to be a case of implementing both - in
my tests a while back, Xalan was somewhat slower than Sablotron,
although it coped with some of the more esoteric xsl:* functions,
that Sablotron choked on.

Cross-platform support is a problem with Xalan also; its
configuration system seems a little esoteric, and it only works on
three platforms (win32, solaris, linux), which is significantly
smaller than PHP's own track record. I'm currently looking at
porting it to OpenBSD, so that will be a good chance to check out
its internals a bit better.

Anil 

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