XSLT Processors

libxslt

• URL: http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
• The GNOME XSLT processor, written in C

libxslt Benefits

• Comes with most (all?) current Linux distributions

libxslt Drawbacks

• Does not support extensions needed to make DocBook stuff look good

Xalan-Java

• URL: http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/
• Part of the Apache XML stuff, written in Java

Xalan-J Benefits

• Extensible using any programming language
• Evolving rapidly
• Supports the DocBook custom extensions we want

Xalan-J Drawbacks

• The documentation is either not very good or not very well organized.