> creating bightml using xslt stylesheets and saxon takes less than > 10 minutes compared to over an hour using jade > > creating chunked html takes about an hour using jade and about 5(!) > using saxon, but here gnome libxslt does the job within 20 minutes > > for the print version i have no comparison values yet. it takes about > 10 minutes to generate the xsl/foo, but i didn't manage to get apache > fot to create pdf from it and i do not know of any other open/free > fo processor :( (ok, passiveTeX, but even its creator says its only > a proof of concept and not meant to by of any real use yet) > > so we could gain a lot of speed by finaly switching from dsssl to xslt > at least for the html based formats (including txt, chm and palmdoc), > but ...
OK, So I wanted to test this stuff with XSL[T] processors on Windows. I tried: MSXML (actually msxsl.exe is able to use MSXML from command line): | $ ./msxsl.exe manual.xml xsl/html.xsl | Error occurred while compiling stylesheet 'xsl/html.xsl'. | Code: 0x80004005 | The xsl:apply-imports instruction may only occur within an | xsl:template instruction with a match attribute, and may not | occur within an xsl:for-each instruction. | Error occurred during compilation of included or imported | stylesheet 'chunk-common.xsl'. Actually the error message is buggy, because <xsl:apply-templates/> is only used in <xsl:template>, <xsl:when> and <xsl:otherwise> tags. So I searched up the content models for these tags, template is ok, but when and otherwise specifies the model this way: <!ELEMENT xsl:when %template;> <!ELEMENT xsl:otherwise %template;> %template is: <!ENTITY % template "(#PCDATA %instructions; %result-elements;)"> Nor %instructions;, nor %result-elements; contain apply-templates, as possible children, so MSXML is right here, and chunk-common.xsl is not conforming to the XSLT DTD as presented in Appendix C of the XSLT spec. Saxon: | $ ./saxon.exe manual.xml xsl/html.xsl | Error on line 35 column 5 of file:/g:/phpcvs/phpdoc/manual.xml: | Error reported by XML parser: Cannot read from | file:/g:/phpcvs/phpdoc/entities/en/bookinfo.xml | (\g:\phpcvs\phpdoc\entities\en\bookinfo.xml) | Transformation failed: Run-time errors were reported Saxon errors are because the "what is the base for relative paths?" question of saxon handled differently than jade/openjade. Saxon would like to open the files relative to the entity file, and not relative to the manual.xml file. Hartmut how you can handle this in your tests with XSL[T] processors? I also searched up XT, but it is quite old, and not updated since 1999 as I can see. I have not downloaded xalan, as thought, one of the programs above should work. :(( I would be very happy to see MSXML working, as it must beat in spead any Java app on Windows, as it is native MS code. Though this prog is not a solution for general phpdoc needs, it would be enough for CHM related tasks, if I can get it working... BTW I tested with "MSXML 4.0 RTM" and "MSXSL 4.0". Goba
