XSLT

http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/ http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt

A XSLT transformation can be understood as a function:

result=function(input)

result

generated document (XML, html, plain text or other format)

input

any XML document

function

transformation function denoted in XSLT

Xslt is somehow a successor of DSSSL and there http://www.topxml.com/xsl/articles/fp/ is an Article, which shows that it really is a FunctionalProgramming language. Btw: the length of the examples there suggests somehow, that it was the right decision to provide DSSSL as well and aim at more languages. Philip Wadler has formal approachs to xslt, xquery, xml schema etc: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary;jsessionid=11D02BA36D6A9AADDB65C51608DB1E24?cid=107132 also http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/view/459 and some more xquery http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/view/456 . C. J. Bex, S. Maneth, F. Neven: A Formal Model for an Expressive Fragment of xslt.

Note: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/7464/emacs/xslt-process/

XSLT C library for Gnome: http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/

http://www.exslt.org/

XSLT 2.0 http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/04/10/xslt2.html

benchmark: http://www.datapower.com/XSLTMark/

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The implementation is sketchy/prototypical. It was derived from an approach to transform SGML documents using only stream transformers (first implementation in jfw, sdc 1993; Caveat in ball those stream are eventually implemented as Scheme lists to ease implementation of the xml data base using the rscheme persistant store. But that's not really relevant and will be changed.). That approach has the advantage of lazyness and efficiency on the expense of a more complicated implementation since chained and intermixed transformers have to be compiled on the fly. The approach has been detailed in http://www.pms.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/publikationen/PMS-FB/PMS-FB-2004-1.pdf