Altova offers free XSLT 1.0/2.0 & XQuery Engine

re: Altova offers free XSLT 1.0/2.0 & XQuery Engine

anup — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:42:37 GMT

ya its helping a lot

re: Altova offers free XSLT 1.0/2.0 & XQuery Engine

Sylvain Hellegouarch — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:24:00 GMT

Interesting indeed.

But do we know whether it will stay free? If not then I would be carful before using it. I'd rather keep Saxon.NET for instance and be sure it will stay free.

re: Altova offers free XSLT 1.0/2.0 & XQuery Engine

M. David Peterson — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:41:00 GMT

> Saxon.NET (which uses IKVM...yep...that doesn't sound too fast does it)

Oddly enough its actually faster than its Java counterpart... in some cases up to 300% (based on the last build and run through the test suite I did a few hours ago)... Jeroen's efforsts combined with the massive push as of late to bring the Gnu classpath project to the mainstream has had some pretty killer side effects as far as performance is concerned...

Still, not going to complain when additional .NET support for XQuery, XPath 2.0, and XSLT 2.0 is offered for free... Good on Altova for making this happen.

re: Altova offers free XSLT 1.0/2.0 & XQuery Engine

JosephCooney — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:32:00 GMT

Yves - I don't think people will be running wild into the street with the news that a new XSLT processor is available for .NET, but the XQuery implementation IS cool (since MS dropped XQuery from .NET 2.0 - ostensibly 'cause it wasn't done yet). Before altova's release today the main ways of doing XQuery in .NET against free-standing XML documents was either Saxon.NET (which uses IKVM...yep...that doesn't sound too fast does it) or Galax (and p/invoke to it).

re: Altova offers free XSLT 1.0/2.0 & XQuery Engine

Yves Reynhout — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:01:00 GMT

This is just COM Interop wrapping a command line tool! The xslt engine is definitly not faster than the native .NET xslt engine (.NET 1.1).

re: Altova offers free XSLT 1.0/2.0 & XQuery Engine

JosephCooney — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 05:42:00 GMT

Cool - when I opened up XMLSpy today it opened up a browser window pointing to this. I hope the XQuery implementation is good.