Thursday, April 3, 2003

How Fast Can XSLT Be? via XML.com: "All great revolutions begin with one person, one dream, one idea, and one vision. And such is the case with Jacek Ambroziak: originator, visionary, and father of the Apache XSLTC project. Exactly one year ago Jacek collected together his thoughts and personal perspective as he departed the project in a document I refer to as the XSLTC memoir. Like all noteworthy breakthroughs, this one was inspired by the serendipitous convergence of three bodies of knowledge: the Java Virtual Machines, Compiler Theory, and XML transformation -- which all came together for Jacek one dark and stormy night back in early 2000. From there, the project was born at Sun Microsystems' XML Technology Center." 10:49:34 PM    The Soapbox