χrust

XPath, XQuery, and XSLT for Rust

Pronounced "crust".

The goal of this project is to implement XPath 3.1, XQuery 3.1 and XSLT 3.0 in Rust.

Currently the project is a proof-of-concept. There is a rudimentary implementation of the XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.1, along with an implementation of XPath which, roughly speaking, conforms to version 1.0 (with a few other features, such as FLWR expressions).

Design

The library separates parsing from evaluation. The XPath and XSLT are parsed (or "compiled") into an internal representation, which is then interpeted by the evaluation module.

This means it won't matter how an expression is written; it will be compiled into the same internal form. For example, the XPath expression:

if $a then "a is true" else ""

will result in the same internal format as:

<xsl:if test="$a">
  a is true
</xsl:if>

The Plan

1. An XQuery processor. (We're skipping this and going straight to XSLT)
2. An XSLT processor, implementing approximately v1.0 functionality.
3. Improve XDM, XPath.
4. Introduce all v3.0 features to the XSLT engine.

NB. We're picking the low-hanging fruit first. So major, fundamental features of the languages are being implemented to begin with. The fine detail will be added later. So although we're aiming for v1.0 functionality as a baseline, the eventual desire to implement all of v3.0 dictates that some more advanced features will be implemented sooner rather than later.

Compliance

Status of docs/compliance.md with XDM, XPath, XQuery, and XSLT.