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Subject: Re: [xsl] Saxon for C/PHP/Python/etc
From: Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:23:12 +0200

What about a JNI interface for the API provided by Saxon? This would
avoid dependencies on any additional translator.
-W

On 27/09/2013, Dr O'Neil Delpratt <oneil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear XSLT community,
>
> I have recently been looking at the possbilities of making XSLT 2.0/3.0
> processor available to the C/C++ world.
> At present there seems to be a real shortage or a lack of support for
> anything greater than XSLT 1.0 (i.e libxslt, Xalan, etc).
>
> The benefits are clearly to be seen: having a fullfledged XSLT 2.0 in C
> would be great for the PHP/Python/Ruby/... communities, who currently
> rely on libxslt.
>
> So I have been looking at tools that can convert Saxon to native machine
> code. Namely LLVM and GCJ.
>
> I have had much better success using GCJ given that I managed to compile
> Saxon-HE to native machine code and actually get it to execute some
> stylesheets without any problems.
> However is GCJ the right technology to use for the task of converting
> Java code to native machine code, since it is somewhat obsolete?
>
> The LLVM project seems much more active, but I am finding it difficult
> to get anything working. I have tried the VMKit which relies on LLVM to
> compile some helloworld examples to machine code, but even that seems
> cumbersome.
>
> I would be grateful for feedback from anyone with experience of these
> technologies.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> O'Neil


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