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Re: RE: Incremental transformations with Xalan and performance

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• Subject: Re: RE: Incremental transformations with Xalan and performance issues?
• From: Kevin Jones <kjouk@y...>
• Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:51:02 +0000
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On Monday 06 December 2004 15:44, Michael Kay wrote:
> In the context of streaming, most of the techniques
> described are not very different from those used in the
> better XSLT processors. One big difference is that XSLT
> 1.0 is typically implemented using a dual push/pull
> model: XSLT instructions use a push pipeline to write a
> tree, while XPath expressions use a pull streaming model
> to read data from trees; whereas this paper describes a
> model that uses pull iterators uniformly. 

Interesting you picked up this point from that paper. In the 
context of the area I have been working in we have 
traditionally had two implementations of XPath, one push 
and one pull. These have now been unified into a single 
implementation that can operate either as pull or push. For 
implementation reasons the push does not look much like a 
simple SAX filter approach but its a push never the less. 
The rational for merging the two was partly functional 
needs and partly the difficulty of supporting XPath2 over 
two separate implementations.

Kev.

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