The good news about ns_xml is that its fast. In general, I’m quite impressed with how quick AOL Server is, but the raw, off-the-cuff speed measurements I’m getting with ns_xml are great.

The bad news is that the module needs some serious work. Its a bit dated - looks like the last work done on it was about 5 years ago. There are a few “must haves” missing - like the ability to directly parse and XSL file, instead of an XSL string.

Now back to good news! This is a great opportunity for me to learn some more C. I’ve been dabbling a little here and there, and I’m quite familiar with libxslt, so it should go along fairly well.

A side note - its possible that with the speed of ns_xml matched with the solid threading of tcl and the database pooling of AOL Server, this could be a very good application server!

How cool would that be to be able to run apps on PHP, Python, perl, and wait for it… tcl!??!