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                   B O S T O N   U N I V E R S I T Y
                                       
                      Computer Science Department
                                       
                          C O L L O Q U I U M

                  Writing the First Compiler for XSLT/XML
                   (or How to Make XSLT/XML Ubiquitous)

                       Santiago Pericas-Geertsen
                           Boston University

   		         Wednesday, October 25
			       3:00 PM 
                       (Coffee served at 2:45PM)
                                       
                         Seminar Room / MCS 135


The Sun[tm] XSLT Compiler is a Java[tm]-based tool that creates fast
and lightweight Java class files for transforming XML files according
to an input XSL file.  The XSLT Compiler works by parsing an input XSL
file and then creating a Java class file that performs the
transformation instructions specified within the XSL file.  After this
one-time compilation, the output Java class, or translet, can be used
repeatedly to transform XML files appropriate for the XSL file. The
benefits of this process are that the translet is faster and smaller
than traditional transformation engines.  In this talk I will discuss
a few of the main design decisions we faced during the development of
the XSLT Compiler. The first part of the talk will include a brief
introduction to XML and XSLT. The second part of the presentation will
be devoted to some architectural aspects of the XSLT compiler.  Time
permitting, I will present a demo of translets "in action" running on
a Palm Pilot.

URL: http://www.sun.com/xml/developers/xsltc/index.html

Related Talk:
http://www.gca.org/attend/2000_conferences/XML_2000/leadingedge.htm

Host: Assaf Kfoury
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