Re: coping with huge xml-saxon

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:42:15PM -0700, david_n_bertoni@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> There are many factors to consider.  Markup-heavy documents might take up
> less space than content-heavy documents.  But really, it's very
> implementation-specific.  I think jd-xslt has an option to page parts of
> the document to disk, which would certainly help with large documents.
> Xalan-C's default implementation of the source tree keeps the entire
> document in memory but tries to be as compact as possible.  However,
> someone could write an different implementation which keeps the majority of
> the document in a database, etc.
> 

I thought as much (as Michael Kay confirmed below). That means I could
have a document 5,000 pages long, and XSLT should be able to handle it
easily. 

(I'm making an assumption. My largest document is 2,000 pages long, and
it was about 2M. So a 5,000 page document would easily fall within
reason on a machine with 256 M of memory. Anything larger than that
would probably be broken up. Actually, probably even the 2,000 page
document should be split up!)

Paul

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