RE: performance of copying all source to result

> My source documents are relatively small (1 KB - 4 KB).
> 
> The question is - how long will it take (at run-time) to do this
> transformation?
> 
> My measurements show it will be more then 1.6 seconds (1600 
> milliseconds).
> 
Your measurements are probably dominated by the time taken to start up the
Java VM and the XSLT processor.

If you do lots of such transformations, I would expect them to take about
100ms each; if you do lots using the same stylesheet, about 50ms each.
Depending on many factors, such as your processor, your Java VM, the amount
of memory, etc.

Mike Kay 

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