Preferred tool for folding XML into HTML

Martin von Loewis loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de
Tue Jan 8 05:26:27 EST 2002


Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:

> > By the way, I advise you to pick wathever XSLT engine available
> > on your platform and pipe the XML into it from Python. An XSLT
> > engine written in Python is a non-sense. Providing Python binding
> > to an XSLT library is *The Right Thing* to do.
> 
> Why ever would you say this?  Surely, except _possibly_ for reasons 
> of performance, there is no logic in the above statement.  

Correctness might be another issue, but it is not clear that 4Suite is
necessarily less correct than other implementations (in fact, it used
to be the opposite).

Regards,
Martin



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