Archie Russell wrote:
>  
>  i have a large volume of xml (and a lot of compute power too) which i need
>  to transform
>  into a simple non-xml format.

Maybe the Edinburgh LTG sgmltrans tool
(http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/corpora/xmldoc/release/r786.htm) may help - it
supports basic hierarchy-sensitive reformatting, although manipulation
capabilities are fairly limited. But, on the other hand, it seems to be
quite fast.

Another option I always found quite convenient is xmlperl
(http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~dmck/xmlperl/) that lets you insert Perl code
into a rule file that reminds me of XSL in a way.


Hope that helps,
Tylman