The answer to this is obviously very processor-dependent. Do tell us
which XSLT processor you are using.

With Saxon, my experience has been that a 25Mb document will transform
in 512Mb of memory. I've heard of people transforming documents of 100Mb
and beyond. But I do question whether this is the right design approach
when things grow to that kind of size.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Simon Kelly
> Sent: 17 April 2003 08:29
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Reducing memeory overheads with xsl
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I currently have the problem that my system is running out of 
> memeory when processing my xslt.  I have set the max memory 
> to 526MB (over the 512 I
> have) in a vain attempt to get the xsl-processor to use every 
> ounce of memory.  But it is still keeling over at the point 
> when I need to work on about 40,000+ tags.
> 
> I get this structure form the db
> 
> <rowset>
>   <row>
>     <timestamp>1</timestamp>
>     <sig1>1</sig1>
>     <sig2>2</sig2>
>     ....
>     <sign>n</sign>
>   </row>
>   ....
>   <row>
>     <timestamp>N</timestamp>
>     <sig1>1</sig1>
>     <sig2>2</sig2>
>     ....
>     <sign>n</sign>
>   </row>
> </rowset>
> 
> and what I need to end up with is a <measuring sequence> 
> containing one of the following for each row.
> 
> <measuringdata>
>   <timestamp>1</timestamp>
>   <sigval>
>     <label>sig1</label>
>     <value>1</value>
>   </sigval>
>   ....
>   <sigval>
>     <label>sign</label>
>     <value>n</value>
>   </sigval>
> </measuringdata>
> 
> The whole final file should only be around the 6MB mark, and 
> I'm creating it in 1/2 a gig of ram, so I have a couple of questions.
> 
> 1)  Why does it run out of memory if the file sizes are 1/64 
> of max memory?
> 2)  Is there a way to generate the file in a more memory 
> efficient way??
> 
> Your help, as always, would be most appreciated.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
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