Data in Stylesheets [was: Comments affect Performance?]

Kay Michael wrote:
> 
> When the stylesheet is accessed as a source document (using document(""))
> the same rules for whitespace and comments apply as for any other source
> document. In Saxon, this means the stylesheet is re-parsed and a separate
> tree is built.

That's interesting. Does that mean that storing information in the stylesheet
document, a common suggestion for solving search and replace problems, is
probably not very efficient, because the processor is actually re-loading
the stylesheet?

If that's the case, is it good practice to store this data in a separate
file in the same directory as a stylesheet? Anyone got any tips on good
practice.


-- 
Warren Hedley


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