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     This article describes how an XSLT processor, in this case the author's open-source Saxon, actually works. There is no published description of how XSLT implementations takes place. This article is aimed to show how XSLT implementations take place and also give a description of how it works. It describes the internal workings of Saxon, and shows how this processor addresses XSLT optimization. It also shows how much more work remains to be done. This article assumes that you already know what XSLT is and how it works. (For a refresher on the basics of XSLT, see Michael Kay's companion article that gives an overview of XSLT.)