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On 9/16/2012 2:05 PM, Ramon F Herrera wrote:
> Following a previous advice of yours, I looked into it. It seems that
> Xalan has reached a dead end. It won't even compile on a regular Linux
> box.

The C++ version of Xalan has lost most of its contributors, agreed. The
Java version is still alive and kicking, though not as actively under
development as it was when IBM was donating lots of manhours to it.

I'm not sure whether there's a C++ version of Saxon; if so that would
also be worth looking at.

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On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 7:20:21 PM UTC+1, Ramon F Herrera wrote:
> Tools used:
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> C++
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> Xerces-C
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> XQilla
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> Developed under Linux, ported to Windows
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> A very important lesson that I learned follows. Xerces implements a
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> reasonably/very fast XPath retrieval BUT it does so at the expense of
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> flexibility. The only type of XPath retrieval supported by Xerces is
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> the MINIMAL one:
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> string neededVariable = XPath("/this/is/the/variable/that/i/need");
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> If the path contains any character like "[", "@", "=", etc. I must
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> resort to XQilla, which is wonderful (a LOT easier to code than pure
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> Xerces), but as slow as molasses in cold weather:
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> string someOtherVar = XPath("/table/joint/ancestor::table/
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> @titledetail");
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> After running some benchmarks I have concluded that my best option is
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> to use a combination of the 2 XPath engines: Xerces for the "easy"
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> stuff and Xqilla for the more complex.
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> -Ramon

Have you looked at liquid xml c++ tool? (http://www.liquid-technologies.com/x...ma-to-cpp.aspx)