Re: [xsl] XSLT translated into C/C++

[Michel Hendriksen <michel.hendriksen@xxxxx>]

What about translets, or are these not really compiled?

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 20/01/2012 18:36, Rand McRanderson wrote:
>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I was curious about if there was any implementation of XSLT which
>> translated it first into a compiled language. Any one know of any
>> commercial or open source projects along these lines? How about any
>> implementations that compile a stylesheet into Java bytecode?
>>
>>
> Way back in 1999, a very early version of Saxon included Java source code
> generation for a subset of XSLT - with the translation from XSLT to Java
> being written in XSLT, no less. It wasn't very useful (it generated really
> bad code) and was quickly abandoned.
>
> More recently, in Saxon 9.4 released last month, Saxon-EE now does
> on-the-fly bytecode generation for selected parts of your stylesheet,
mixing
> compiled code and interpreted code freely so either can call the other.
>
> This isn't exactly new, though: the XSLTC product, which became part of
> Xalan, was probably the first to make a major feature of code generation.
>
> For a discussion of what to expect from code generation, at least in Saxon,
> see
>
>
http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol7/html/Delpratt01/BalisageVol7-Delprat
t01.html
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica