Are there any XSLT to C++ compilers available?

Question

I found only one attempt to create such compiler - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xsltc/. But this project is dead for decade already. Are there any other examples? Opensource or commercial?

Are there any fundamental technical difficulties with building such software? With the whole approach of compiling XSLT natively?

I suppose there are good use cases for using it - places where we don't need to change XSLT but still would like to get higher performance (and probably, lower memory requirements).

Are there any other reasons this software may be not so efficient as it looks? - Are interpreting XSLT processors as efficient as compiled would probably be?

Answer 1

From my understanding, XSLT isn't very popular anymore. Generally, it's easier and more powerful to use your favorite XML library for your language of choice, parse your XML data, and write code to format the output the way you want it.

On the other hand, it seems like you have had some success with it already. There are cases when it's useful. Check this SO question out for more details on the pros and cons of XSLT.

Anyway, software developers in general aren't big fans of XSLT, which would explain why there hasn't been a big movement to write an optimized XSLT parser in C++.