Daniel Veillard, the maintainer of libxslt, the GNOME XSLT library, has
announced its first stable release, version 1.0.0.
Veillard, who earlier this year moved from the W3C to Red Hat, has been
working on libxslt, along with libxml, for some time. He describes the XSLT
processor:
Libxslt is believed to implement all the XSLT-1.0 constructs, support
a few "common" extensions and provide an extension framework. It also
includes a simple to use command line interface 'xsltproc' with an XSLT
profiler.
Libxslt is open source, available under LGPL or a license similar to the
W3C IPR license. Veillard reports that it works on Linux, BSD and Solaris,
with some efforts being made to build it on Microsoft platforms. The library
itself is written in C.
The software can be downloaded as source or RPMs from xmlsoft.org. Anecdotal evidence from the
community at large suggests that libxslt performs well, and favorably in
comparison to Microsoft's XSLT processor, which is noted for its speed.