A number of users have written to me suggesting that I respond to Altova's latest customer newsletter in which they make the rather suprising claim that their XSLT processor is three times faster than Saxon. At least they had the decency to describe how they measured it - by running a thousand or so conformance tests from the W3C test suite using a batch script in which each transformation was run individually from the command line. Any reasonably competent user knows that that's a hopelessly inefficient way of running Java programs...   more »