Re: xslt architecture

I think the question of which processor is involved also can add in
some overhead. For example I seem to remember that MSXML used to open
everything as a new DOM. This however was quite a while ago so not
sure if it has been changed since.

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From a processor's perspective: is there any difference between one
> stylesheet containing 100 templates and 100 stylesheets each
> containing 1 template each, with an extra stylesheet containing 100
> include statements?
>
> Import precedence issues aside, if they were 100 imports instead of
> includes, does that make a significant difference to the processor?
> (all unique files imported once, not the same file imported in
> multiple locations)
>
> I tend towards monolith stylesheets where there's usually no more than
> a dozen or so large stylesheets, but in front of me now is the
> complete opposite approach and I'm not keen...
>
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