xsltproc very slow

I've just tried out how xsltproc (1.0.8) performs compared to
openjade (1.3.1). I'm not impressed. While openjade is already
notoriously slow, 12 minutes for a full documentation build on my
system, with xsltproc it took 55 minutes. Can anyone try it out on
his system to see whether other versions or other configurations
perform better? As it stands, I'm not excited to give up openjade.

Profile xsltproc(1). Dime to dollar it's some inefficient XSL.
libxslt is by and large considered the fastest XSL processor and is
very performance consciouus. I wrote the ruby bindings for
libxml/libxslt and have found Daniel very responsive to performance
related questions. $0.02. If you find some problem XSL that's slow,
let me know and I may be able to help out. -sc

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Sean Chittenden