XSLCache extension for PHP, originally developed by NYTimes started its second life in PECL’s repository and I am proud to announce first PECL-release.

The XSL Cache extension is a modification of PHP’s standard XSL extension that caches the parsed XSL stylesheet representation between sessions for 2.5x boost in performance for sites that repeatedly apply the same transform. API-wise it is compatible with usual XSL extension with two small exceptions:

1. instead of XSLTProcessor class you should use XSLTCache class.

2. importStyleshet method has another “signature”: void importStylesheet(string $path, bool $cachesheet=true);

Installation, from now on, should be as simple as ”pecl install xslcache”