Re: [xsl] Why are there no XSLT processors implemented in XSLT?

Subject: Re: [xsl] Why are there no XSLT processors implemented in XSLT?
From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 17:40:58 +0100
>Naxos is very slow and memory-hungry. Stylesheets larger than toy-sized will probably fail to run even if you specify a large heap for the JVM.

Let's be clear, the fact that someone wrote a proof-of-concept demonstrator and it was slow doesn't prove that the thing is impossible. My first XSLT processor written in Java was far, far slower than that.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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