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Saturday, March 01, 2008

Understanding the BizTalk Mapper: Download the Article

If you prefer to do your reading offline, then you can download the entire series of 13 posts as a single 68-page Microsoft Word document, or Adobe PDF document.

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Saturday, March 01, 2008 8:14:07 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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BizTalk Mapper

Tuesday, March 04, 2008 4:54:20 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

This was a great series. Nice job explaining each functoid.

Richard

Thursday, April 17, 2008 5:32:22 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Hi Dan,

Fantastic paper giving a truly thorough examination of the mapper, great education and reference information.

How would using Saxon compare to the other results in your performance tests?

Cheers,

Jack

Jack

Thursday, April 17, 2008 6:54:40 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Hey Jack, good to hear from you!
Thanks for the comments.

Yeah, I believe Saxon compares favorably with XslTransform, but is a bit slower than XslCompiledTransform.
Anton Lapounov documents a great comparison of various XSLT engines here: http://blogs.msdn.com/antosha/archive/2006/07/24/677560.aspx

Michael Kay weighs in on the comments with some information about the Saxon testing part.
However, given that, Saxon supports XSLT 2.0, whilst Microsoft do not, so I think there's a lot of mileage in using Saxon.

I did start working on a utility which could alter the bytecode in a compiled BizTalk mapping assembly such that it would use Saxon or XslCompiledTransform, but I seem to not have too much time at the mo to finish it!

Cheers,
Dan.

Daniel Probert

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