Re: linkedin discussion of "can you sell an XSLT?"

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Michael Kay<mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> JVM byte-code or .NET IL code both are not processor-specific.
>> Fortunately, there is no need for XSLT byte-code :)
>
> I can't imagine anyone compiling XSLT to byte-code that doesn't need the
> support of a processor-specific runtime library, so the compiled code will
> inevitably be tied to a particular XSLT processor.
>

Yes, but it is still a huge difference from practical perspective to
need just two DLLs (the compiled XSLT library and the run-time support
library) as compared to an uncompiled XSLT library with more than 100
different stylesheet files, *and* the XSLT processor in its entirety.


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