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Hello all, The web development company I work for is using libxsl via PHP5. We have a build environment which will create static html where possible, however we are currently using the same stylesheets to transform the xml dynamically where we have to. We have noticed that with large stylesheets (174k all up) there is significant overhead in actually importing the stylesheet i.e $xsltprocessor->importStylesheet( $xsldom ); which i believe calls the function xsltParseStylesheet in xslt.c , At a light to moderate load this works well but it does degrade fairly quickly when additional load is placed on the server. The building and manipulation of the DomDocument, and the actual processing of the style sheets however are extremely fast. I understand that this is not at all a bug, and the intention of the the xsltprocessor is to build it and process many times. Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to do this with scripting languages such as php,perl etc... which are run on a per request basis. Aside from reducing the bulk of the XSLT, is there anything that can be done from an XSL stylesheet POV or from a libxslt POV to reduce the overhead of importing the stylesheet. How difficult would it be to export the xslt processor once it has been build and upon subsequent requests instruct libxslt to use that...? Is this a problem that other people are encountering also ? libxml / libxslt solves alot of problems for us We have had a look at things like mod_xslt, axkit and Suns' XSLTC. mod_xslt and axkit don't really solve the problem that we are having and our production servers are running OpenBSD so having Java isn't ideal. We also know that libxml and libxsl are fast and well tested, so we risk hitting another bottle neck further down the road with other xslt processors. Thanks in Advance Andrew M
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