Re: Optimizing a XSLT

Eric,

You seem to be solely using string manipulation to create elements and
attributes in your output.  I wonder if it would be quicker to use the features
of XSL provided to build and populate element and attribute nodes:

>  <xsl:template name="PricePointProcess">
>   <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;PricePoint MW="</xsl:text>
>    <xsl:value-of select="mw"/>
>   <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">" price="</xsl:text>
>    <xsl:value-of select="price"/>
>   <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">"/&gt;</xsl:text>
>  </xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="PricePointProcess">
<xsl:element name="PricePoint">
<xsl:attribute name="MW">
<xsl:value-of select="mw"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="price">
<xsl:value-of select="price"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

I daresay that this will be rather quicker.  Particularly if you are using a
processor implemented in Java this will be doing less mucking with strings and
more building your output tree for the same amount of processing.  Untested.

hth,

Mike


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