saxon vs. xalan

[Kelly Zeng]

Hi,
It looks to me that Saxon is almost 10 times faster than xalan when
doing a simple transformation as the following:

try {
     _transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(new
StreamSource(_xslFileName));
 }
 catch (Exception e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
     System.out.println(e.getMessage());
 }
_transformer.transform(new StreamSource(xmlInput), new
StreamResult(htmlOutput));

Why is that?  should i use sth. like SAXTransformerFactory?

Thanx.

:)Kelly