483.xalancbmk
SPEC CPU2006 Benchmark Description

Benchmark Name

483.xalancbmk

Benchmark Author

IBM Corporation, Apache Inc, plus modifications for SPEC purposes by Christopher Cambly, Andrew Godbout, Neil Graham, Sasha Kasapinovic, Jim McInnes, June Ng, Michael Wong

   Primary contact: michaelw [at] ca.ibm.com

This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

Benchmark Program General Category

XSLT processor for transforming XML documents into HTML, text, or other XML document types

Benchmark Description

This program is a modified version of Xalan-C++, an XSLT processor written in a portable subset of C++ .

Xalan-C++ version 1.8 is a robust implementation of the W3C Recommendations for XSL Transformations (XSLT) and the XML Path Language (XPath). It works with a compatible release of the Xerces-C++ XML parser: Xerces-C++ version 2.5.0. Xalan-C++ (named after a rare musical instrument) implements the W3C Recommendation 16 November 1999 XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0 and the XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0. XSLT is the first part of the XSL stylesheet language for XML. It includes the XSL Transformation vocabulary and XPath, a language for addressing parts of XML documents.

You use the XSLT language to compose XSL stylesheets. An XSL stylesheet contains instructions for transforming XML documents from one document type to another document type (XML, HTML, or other). In structural terms, an XSL stylesheet specifies the transformation of one tree of nodes (the XML input) into another tree of nodes (the output or transformation result).

Modifications for SPEC benchmarking purposes include:
   1. combining code in a way that makes it a standalone executable
   2. removing compiler incompatibilities and improving standard conformance
   3. change the output to display intermediate values
   4. removing large part of unexecuted code that causes differences between platforms
   5. finding the test data and contributing fixes to the code to read the large 100 MB test data
   6. Moving all the include locations to fit better into the SPEC harness.

Input Description

An XML document and an XSL Stylesheet.

Output Description

An HTML document

Programming Language

C++

Known portability issues

None

Portability issues fixed subsequent to the release of SPEC CPU2006 V1.0

New with CPU2006 V1.1:

• Added explicit inclusion of cstring header file.
• Added multiple portability changes for use with the PGI C++ compiler on Windows.
• Added multiple portability changes for use with the ParallelNavi compiler on Solaris. To use, you'll need to set -DSPEC_CPU_PARANAVI

References

• http://xml.apache.org/xalan-c/
• Xalan-C++ fully implements the W3C Recommendation 16 November 1999 XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0.
• Xalan-C++ incorporates the XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0.
• Xalan-C++ uses Xerces-C++ to parse XML documents and XSL stylesheets.
• Along with a complete API for performing transformations in your C++ applications, Xalan-C++ provides a command line utility for convenient file-to-file transformations.
• Xalan-C++ supports C++ extension functions.

Last updated: $Date: 2011-08-16 18:23:17 -0400 (Tue, 16 Aug 2011) $