RE: 10,000 document()'s

I would suggest writing a SAX filter that invokes the XSLT
transformations (one transformation for each file) via JAXP, gets the
result back in a StringWriter, and adds an element containing the word
count to the output stream.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

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> Peter Binkley
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> Subject:  10,000 document()'s
> 
> 
> I need advice on how to tackle this problem: I've got a file 
> that contains a list of about 10,000 other files, and I want 
> to process the list so as to add a wordcount for each of the 
> external files. Something like this:
> 
> Input:
> 
> <files>
> 	<file>
> 		<filename>/path/to/file/2844942.xml</filename
> 	<file>
> 	<file> .... </file>
> <files>
> 
> Output:
> 
> <files>
> 	<file>
> 		<filename>/path/to/file/2844942.xml</filename
> 		<wordcount>2938</wordcount>
> 	<file>
> 	<file> ....	</file>
> <files>
> 
> The obvious approach is to use a for-each loop that includes 
> a variable that opens the external file using a document() 
> call. The problem is that the process inevitably runs out of 
> memory, both with Saxon and Xalan. It seems that the 
> variables are passing out of scope and being destroyed as 
> they should, but I gather from a posting by Michael Kay
> (http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200212/msg0050
7.html) that all of those document() source trees are remaining in
memory throughout the transformation, adding up to megabytes of data.

Can anyone suggest a strategy? The process doesn't have to be fast, it
just has to finish.

Peter Binkley
Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian
Information Technology Services
4-30 Cameron Library
University of Alberta Libraries
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2J8
Phone: (780) 492-3743
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e-mail: peter.binkley@xxxxxxxxxxx




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