XSLT 2.0 for LAMP [Was:: [ANN] Zorba 2.0: complete XQuery/XSLT processor (C++,open source, Apache license)]

On Thu, October 13, 2011 12:24 am, John Cowan wrote:
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>> More to the point, there's a gaping hole in the market for an open
>> source XSLT 2.0 processor that runs on the LAMP stack.

Some distributions provide shell scripts for running Saxon so users, at
least, can use XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 from the command line.

> Which Zorba could easily do, since it's written in C++ and could be
> SWIGged or hand-integrated.  That would provide XSLT 2.0 processing
> for Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.

I can't find Steve Ball's XSLT 2.0 effort right now, but IMO that faltered
at least in part because it was going to be funded by people paying for
early access to the code.

IMO, the essential feature for a XSLT 2.0 processor for the LAMP stack is
the ability to consume and produce libXML2-style xmlDoc trees so it can be
a drop-in replacement for libxslt that just works.  Implementing the top
levels of the libxslt API would do more for its success than having its
own, fully-featured API.

Regards,


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