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Re: RE: Incremental transformations with Xalan and performance

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• Subject: Re: RE: Incremental transformations with Xalan and performanceissues?
• From: Jeff Rafter <lists@j...>
• Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 09:22:41 -0800
• Cc: Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@n...>, xml-dev@l...
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> I'ld rather implement a solution that has no limitations, so with the lack of 
> a true "incremental/SAX" based transformer implementation,  I'm thinking that 
> I'll need to move away from the monolithic document approach and store each 
> recipient's info in a separate small document to work around the current xslt 
> document size limitations.

STX is the best bet for Java. Karl Waclawek is working on a similar tool 
for C#-- it is not XSLT based per se but more XPath based on top of SAX. 
I think a third solution exists, but it would be up to someone else to 
confirm:

It sounds as though your plan is to have a highly repetitive large 
document. In fact most large documents I have seen are designed this 
way-- so instead, simply apply the transformations to chunks of the 
document at a time. Any cross referencing that needs to be done can be 
passed in via additional parameters. To chunk the data, build a SAX 
filter which pipes the sets of events to the XSLT processor (like 
SAXON), which will internally build a tree for the small chunk.

To further optimize this approach, build the tree yourself and use the 
SAX processor to update the tree for each chunk.


Cheers,
Jeff Rafter

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  • Incremental transformations with Xalan and performance issues?
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  • RE: Incremental transformations with Xalan and performance issues?
    • From: "Andrzej Jan Taramina" <andrzej@c...>

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