he Saxon-EE product includes within a single package:
A schema-aware XSLT 2.0 processor
A schema-aware XQuery 1.0 processor
An XPath processor that can be called from Java applications
A free-standing XML Schema validator.
Saxon is written in 100% Java and therefore runs on any popular platform
The eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) is a powerful open source platform for providing access to digital content. Developed and maintained by the California Digital Library (CDL), XTF functions as the primary access technology for the CDL's digital collections and other digital projects worldwide.
A better approach is to parse the XSLT stylesheet into memory once, compile it to machine-format, and then preserve that machine representation in memory for repeated use. This is called stylesheet compilation and is no different in concept than the compilation of any programming language.
The eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) is a powerful open source platform for providing access to digital content. Developed and maintained by the California Digital Library (CDL), XTF functions as the primary access technology for the CDL’s digital collections and other digital projects worldwide.
XTF consists of Java and XSLT 2.0 code that indexes, queries, and displays digital objects