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Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > It is. Cocoon is based on DOM and this requires all the stuff to go > directly into memory. We all agree that DOM is the wrong approach for > XML server side processing (like both James Clark and Mike Key have > shown in their software) and event-based incremental operation is the > way to go. > > In fact, after the release of Cocoon 1.5, we are currently designing > Cocoon2 which will be event-based and _much_ less memory consuming. The > final goal is to be able to generate a 100 Mb database report using a > few Mb JVM heap size. This also goes along with other efforts such as > stylesheet compilation that is being implemented in XSL:P, the new > incremental formatting API James Tauber and Mike Key are proposing for > Fop and server side XML compiled pages for SAX-direct XML generation > that removes parsing overhead. > > Please, checkout the details on the web site. I think it would be quite hard to do a full XSLT implementation that didn't need random access to the whole document, at least for a large proportion of stylesheets. There are many, many things that people commonly do in stylesheets that cause an XSLT processor to access the document in a non-stream-like way. For example, - xsl:sort - handling elements where the ordering of the children is not significant, eg <xsl:template match="name"> <xsl:apply-templates select="given-name"/> <xsl:apply-templates select="family-name"/> </xsl:template> - tables of contents - cross references (with the id function) - numbering (with xsl:number) Some of these are localized, but some are not. If you want to process very large documents with a small JVM heap using XSLT, the alternatives I see are: - drastic subsetting of XSLT - use a RandomAccessFile to provide random access to the XML document without having to keep it all in memory - use a multi-pass strategy James XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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