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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Stylesheet optimisation
 Ray, I can second that emotion. All parts of your observations. For lots of examples of this, check out: http://technet.oracle.com/tech/xml/demo/demo1.htm Each example has a link to the source XSQL Page and XSLT Stylesheets that drive the rendering... The most interesting demo is the "Do You XML?" demo which is a completely functional, searchable, categorized web site built with four SQL queries and a single XSLT stylesheet. Fully data-driven. _________________________________________________________ Steve Muench, Consulting Product Manager & XML Evangelist Business Components for Java Development Team http://technet.oracle.com/tech/java http://technet.oracle.com/tech/xml ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray Cromwell <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 4:26 PM Subject: Re: Stylesheet optimisation | > | > > Ouups, forgot the links to java lobby post : | > > | > http://www.javalobby.org/servlet/News?action=displayStories&xsl=comment.xsl& | > format=full&id=510100000000125 | > | > Interesting article. Having experimented with various ways of avoiding | > building the full tree, I'm sure many interesting transformations can be | > done this way, but the language to achieve them won't be XSLT. XSLT gives | > you direct read access to the input document and append access to the output | | I was the original author of that post. I don't understand what you | mean by saying that the "language to achieve them won't be XSLT" That's | like saying "there are many ways of inlined polymorphic dispatch, | but the language to achieve them won't be Java" (JIT v HotSpot) or | "there are many ways of optimizing a join, but the language | won't be SQL" | | My point is that for web sites that are transforming simple DTDs | like database result sets, there exists a subset of XSLT/XPath that | can be efficiently processed without building a memory intensive | object model or result set. XSL was supposedly designed to allow | efficient processing, for instance, by being side effect free. | | Consider the following XML input | | <foo> | <bar>quote of the day</bar> | <body> some useful content </body> | </foo> | | and the following templates | | <xsl:template match="foo"> | <HEADER> <xsl:apply-templates select="bar"/> </HEADER> | | <xsl:apply-templates select="body"/> | | </FOOTER> <xsl:apply-templates select="bar"/> </FOOTER> | </xsl:template> | | According to the XSL design, I should only have | to apply the template to "bar" once, because the | side-effect-free-ness guarantees that the second | application will result in an identical result | fragment. | | | Now consider an XML input like this | | <resultset> | <row> | <col>Apple</col> | <col>$1.25</col> | </row> | | <row> | <col>Orange</col> | <col>$3.25</col> | </row> | | <row> | <col>Frape</col> | <col>$0.35</col> | </row> | </resultset> | | And the following stylesheet | | | <xsl:template match="resultset"> | | <TABLE> | <xsl:apply-templates select="row"/> | </TABLE> | | </xsl:template> | | | <xsl:template match="row"> | <TR> <xsl:apply-templates select="col"/> </TR> | </xsl:template> | | | | <xsl:template match="col"> | <TD> <xsl:apply-templates/> </TD> | </xsl:template> | | | Whether or not you consider this an interesting XSLT stylesheet, | I can assure you, there are many cases where XSLT stylesheets | will be "simple" and won't have XPath's grabbing data from random | spots all over the XML document. | | All I'm suggesting is, that perhaps an XSLT processor can "optimize" | the stylesheet after it is loaded and detect how much state has | to be preserved for processing. It can always fall back on | a slower processing model, but if it could detect when a | stylesheet could be "optimized" and give warning about what | constructs are likely to be slow, wouldn't that be great for | development in the same way that breakpoints and tracing are? | | | -Ray | | | | | | | | | | | XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list | XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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