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We have use case where we need to see the results of documents processed earlier in our pipeline, but in a parallel processing environment they may not have finished writing yet. In a single xslt we are mostly protected from this since the results of doc() and other external sources of input are required to be immutable, right? But we supply our own functions that query external data sources and they (deliberately) break this contract. And of course if you run multiple xslts in series, the results from the first one may show up in the second. In cases like this you need to be careful about synchronizing, and it becomes important to introduce a barrier that waits for outstanding writes to complete. I wonder if this sort of issue is being addressed in any way in the threading work you're doing in xslt? -Mike On 03/19/2012 01:43 PM, Michael Kay wrote: > >> I assume that under some circumstances it's possible to generate a >> number of fragments of an output document in parallel and then merge >> the fragments at the end of the operation. If so, is XSLT >> functionalism sufficient to do that automatically, or would some >> external programmer input be required to implement that? >> >> > Initially we're taking a cautious approach: using multithreading > automatically where we're pretty confident it will usually give a > benefit (xsl:result-document, fn:collection()) and allowing it to be > invoked manually in cases where we think it's likely to incur more > cost than benefit in a significant number of cases (xsl:for-each, > xsl:apply-templates). Hopefully the decision-making will become more > sophisticated as we gain experience and gather user feedback. > > Michael Kay > Saxonica > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php >
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