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> So what exactly is the memory limit for XSLT transformations? > I know that Michale Kay in his book mentions that documents > larger than 1 or 2 MB cannot be processed by an XSLT > processor, because, as you say, the processor loads them into memory. > > However, why his this limit so low? On my box I have 256 MB > of memory. It is not uncommon for a new machine to have 500 > MB of memory--or even double that amount. > > It seem that if you have 256 MB of memory, you ought to be > able to handle a document of around 50 MB. (I think the > processor actually requires something like 4 times the size > of the document--or was it 10?) Using Saxon, I have successfully processed 20Mb documents on a 128Mb machine, and I have heard of people processing 100Mb documents on a 1Gb machine. You need to learn how to tune the Java VM memory settings, of course. Michael Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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