Re: [ANNOUNCE] XSLT-process 2.1 available

[Ovidiu P. <ov...@xe...>]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 07:56:22 -0700, "T. V. Raman" <tv...@al...> wrote:

> I'm running xslt-process with emacspeak
> --http://emacspeak.sf.net --works pretty well for the most
> par.

Yes, I'm familiar with this one. Although I'm not a user of it, I was
quite intrigued by this technology, especially since it has been
around for such a long time.

> The one thing I noticed  is that if you turn off auto update
> of the speedbar, and then try to manually update the source
> and xsl frames dont always update correctly.

I'll take a look into this.

> Also, I'm still a bit confused about  knowing whether the
> debugger is running from the start or is somewhere in the
> middle of a run --but all in all this is a great tool!

That's a good point, there is no indication of what the background
process is doing. Since the processing in the Java background process
is asynchronous, I was thinking to add some visual clue in the
modeline to indicate what's going on. Would this be a helpful
indication in conjunction with emacspeak?

> While on the topic, have you tried csltproc as an
> alternative xslt processor on Linux-- it runs blazingly fast
> compared to either saxon or xalan.

I assume you're referring to xsltproc, the XSLT C library for Gnome; I
couldn't find anything on 'csltproc'. My tool was primarily designed
to work with Java processors that use the JAXP APIs, but nothing stops
it from working with a C/C++ implementation as well.

I looked at xsltproc, and it seems to be a fairly complete
implementation of the XSLT spec. I might add support for it in a later
release, as this requires some work for the background process that
runs the XSLT processor and debugger.

Do you know if the tool also compiles outside the Gnome environment? I
would like to have a solution that works on all the platforms, not
only on Linux/Gnome.

Thanks for the hint, though!

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> --raman
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