Sun Microsystems are developing an XSLT compiler capable of producing compiled Java classes from XSLT stylesheets.

The 'Translets' technology is being demonstrated at the XSL Europe 2000 conference. A demonstration version of the application, complete with source, is expected to be released at the end of the month.

The compiler currently only supports a subset of the XSLT specification, but work is continuing to add full conformance to the Recommendation.

The Translets are based on an optimised DOM implementation to give high performance; potentially outstripping XT. The DOM implementation is under internal development by Sun.