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With all the hundreds of XML processing tools out there, Web browsers are still where the action is—luckily for XML developers, the action never seems to slow down. Firefox 3 introduces a huge improvement to basic XML parsing as well as a big win for those looking to use XSLT in Firefox. This makes a big difference for practical use of XML on the Web.

The Xalan XSLT processor can invoke almost any method in almost any Java class in the classpath. Doing so can improve performance, provide features like trigonometric functions that aren't available in XSLT, perform file I/O, talk to databases and network servers, or implement algorithms that are easy to write in the Java language but hard to write in XSLT. Learn the basics of invoking Java code from Xalan.