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From graham.ellis@xxxxxxxxxxx Mon Jan 8 10:53:16 2001

I'm currently working on transforming small xml files, but at a high
frequency - (up to thousands per hour). Any suggestions as to what method
would be best for this scenario?

Graham Ellis
ACT Financial Systems

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 From: 	David Halsted[SMTP:halstedd@xxxxxxxxxx]
 Reply To: 	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Sent: 	04 January 2001 21:52
 To: 	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Subject: 	Re:  XSLT or DOM or SAX?

 Yes, in general XSLT makes things easy that are more difficult in DOM or
 SAX
 (or at least take more code), but at a performance cost.  SAX is great,
 though, if you are concerned about performance in handling large
 documents.
 For what it matters, I tend to use XSLT when I know that the XML involved
 will be small because it makes things so easy, DOM when I need persistent
 structures (and have some sense for the size of the files involved), and
 SAX
 when I'm running through files that may be large, like XML-ized versions
 of
 data from large databases.  If you are looking for functionality you can't
 find in XSLT, you have the option of extending it.

Dave Halsted

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: James Robertson <jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 5:13 PM
 Subject: Re:  XSLT or DOM or SAX?

 > At 07:50 3/01/2001, Craig Pfeifer wrote:
 >
 > >I wanted to know how you knew if/when you have reached the limits of
 XSLT,
 > >and it's time to look at a DOM / SAX solution? What sorts of
 > >transformations are too difficult/awkward to accomplish in XSLT and are
 > >better left to DOM / SAX implementations?
 >
 > DOM/SAX seems a pretty low-level alternative
 > to XSLT.
 >
 > You might want to have a look at Omnimark
 > instead for more complex transformations.
 >
 > J
 >
 > -------------------------
 > James Robertson
 > Step Two Designs Pty Ltd
 > SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy
 > Illumination: an out-of-the-box Intranet solution
 >
 > http://www.steptwo.com.au/
 > jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 >
 >
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