Subject:Stylus Studio and Mapping To the Global Justice XML Data Model Author:Michael Ahlers Date:02 Nov 2004 03:23 PM Originally Posted: 02 Nov 2004 03:00 PM
Has anyone here had any experience using Stylus Studio to do GJXDM
mappings? I am currently evaluating tools for generating XSLT, but I've
hit a road block with Stylus Studio in that it chokes on massive
Schemas (when specified as the target document). (The Global Justice XML
Data Model, http://it.ojp.gov/jxdm/ , is a mammoth structure that
represents law enforcement data and weighs in at around 8.2Mb.) Is it
even possible to get SS to work with something this big and complex? If
so, how? (At this point, using GJXDM sub-Schemas are not really an
option.)
Subject:Stylus Studio and Mapping To the Global Justice XML Data Model Author:Michael Ahlers Date:04 Nov 2004 03:12 PM
Thank you very much for your response. It's always nice to know
people are listening, which is more than I can say for some of your
competitors.
At any rate, I've found that Stylus Studio is definitely the superior
product when compared alternatives, and I think it may work out if I
just throw more hardware at the problem.
I won't pretend to have a clue about internals, but it appears obvious
Stylus is attempting to parse the entire Schema structure upon loading
it. Is this the case and if so, is it absolutely necessary? Why not
"simply" exclude what is not immediately necessary? For instance, only
grab all top-level elements and if I expand a branch, load only the
relevant nodes from the Schema and cull the rest. I am guessing
MapForce takes this approach since it has no trouble when attacking
the GJXDM.
Oh well, I am rambling now. Thank you again for your response and I
hope future versions of SS will give adequate treatment to this issue.