Re: Standalone XSLT processor for FreeBSD.

Daniel,

What's your impression of the latest changes in XSLT2 and XPath2 (the May 2
drafts)?

-- Kurt Cagle


----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Veillard" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 11:32 PM
Subject: Re:  Standalone XSLT processor for FreeBSD.


> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:26:13PM -0600, Mike Brown wrote:
> > Ben Trafford wrote:
> > > Does anybody know of a standalone XSLT processor that will work on
> > > FreeBSD? It must not require anything outside itself (e.g. libraries,
Java,
> > > etc.).
> > >
> > > I just want something where I can type "./xsltprocessor [command
line]"
> > > and have it work.
> >
> > All XSLT processors that meet your criteria are still going to rely on
an XML
> > parser external to themselves. For example, the ones that are the least
hassle
> > out of the box, sablotron and libxslt, still require the expat and iconv
C
> > libraries.
>
>   Wrong. libxslt requires libxml2 but does not require iconv (nor expat).
> If iconv is not found at compile time no dependancy to it will be made
> (and libxml2/libxslt/xsltproc encoding support will be reduced to
> UTF-8/UTF-16/ISO latin 1).
>   On most Unix, Iconv is anyway part of the C libray since it's part of
> the POSIX standard.
>
> Daniel
>
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