RE: Max size?

This very much depends on the processor and the type of transform you are doing, but as a general rule yes.  The major issue is parsing the XML file.  In this process the text file is converted to a data structure that can be an order of magnitude larger then the original file, when this structure becomes to big it is swapped and there is a massive decrease in speed.  There are processors that support streaming but most just create the complete data structure and then process it.

Edward Middleton

-----Original Message-----
From: Heinz Seldte [mailto:HeinzS@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 3:12 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Max size?


Hi all,

I have a "hypothetical" question.  If I were to generate very large XML
files (upwards of 1 Meg?), would I encounter problems when processing with
XSLT, considering that I would want to sort on various elements.

We are busy doing some tests and I would be interested to compare our
results to existing findings. (We are using xalan/xercses on Linux).

Cheers,
Heinz

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