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On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 16:31 +0200, Dan Shelton wrote: > A colleague with two Dr. (Med/IT) and one Prof. in IT already called > XML and XSLT "a failure" because the processing requirements have > become insane - IT was once done with 4MB machines, doing the same > with today's machines and XML/XSLT goes up to 400MB as minimum. Other dramatic failures include . HTML . digital cameras . youtube . movies > And > admittedly, I have no arguments to prove him wrong The onus is on him to prove he is right. XML and XSLT are very widely used. $ /usr/bin/time xsltproc dict.xsl dict.xml 0.03user 0.01system 0:00.18elapsed 22%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 21056maxresident)k 1688inputs+536outputs (8major+1409minor)pagefaults 0swaps $ (so, about 20 megabytes for that one, not 400) You could also try xt. > - XML processing > takes a lot of memory (why?) and XSLT processing is... eating memory. > Lots of memory. There doesn't seem to be a "small" solution. Programs in just about any language can run out of memory. That was as true with PDP-11 assembly as it is with XSLT today. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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