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> And I need to output some of these records, but not all of > them. The rules upon which I decide to output are complex, > and I won't bore you with the details. > > Also, after every 5th record has been output, I need to write > some kind of marker in the output stream. The discussion has been interesting. It sounds from your later description as if the first paragraph above was a gross simplification: that is, the output records don't correspond one-to-one with a subset of the input records, which means that the first technique I suggested isn't applicable. In this situation I would lean strongly towards a two-pass approach. It's interesting that your code appears already to be suffering from being too complex and monolithic; a multi-pass approach is the best way of avoiding this creeping complexity, and you certainly don't want it to get any worse. Your concern about the two-pass approach seems primarily to be memory usage. This is a technology issue rather than a language issue. The fact that you are using XSLT 1.0 presumably means you are constrained in your choice of technology - I don't recall seeing you say what these constraints are. With XSLT 2.0 there is a much better chance, I think, that the second phase (interpolating the marker elements) could be done in pure streaming mode with no additional memory requirements. It might also allow a substantial simplification (and speed-up) of your existing code. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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