RE: [xsl] Definite list of XSLT 2.0 processors?

Subject: RE: [xsl] Definite list of XSLT 2.0 processors?
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:12:13 -0000
> is Marklogic use own XSLT engine?
> 
> XSLT engine integrated with database engine look like very 
> powerfull but also sound like "too good to be true"

There's no intrinsic reason why it should be hard. XSLT does nearly all its
access to source documents by means of explicit XPath expressions (with
minor exceptions like xsl:number), so if you've got an XPath engine to
access the database then you're 90% of the way there. The main difficulty is
likely to be optimization: it's hard to work out by static analysis what a
stylesheet is doing, and therefore whether it can take advantage of indexes.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 

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