Re: XSLT 1.0 support in browsers, as of June 2008

http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.xml

I ran this a couple of days ago on Firefox 2,
I think it took a minute or so.

Just downloaded Firefox 3, did it again.  Pretty quick,
I counted to 10 and it was rendered!

-g


On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Liam Quin <liam@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 04:23:49PM +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
>> [...]
>> These days a pointer to the parent is inserted
>> once every 20 children or so, so you avoid the pathological case. (In any
>> case this only tended to arise with data-oriented XML; with documents the
>> number of children per parent is rarely very large.)
>
> I remember that Author/Editor, SoftQuad's SGML editor, had that
> assumption too, for reformatting the document.
>
> And then we started to get customers who were editing dictionaries
> or encyclopaedias, with A.sgml (say) maybe 10,000 "entry" children,
> and it was taking 45 minutes to make a change.
>
> I agree, it's pretty rare... but for the people who enconter it,
> it tends to happen all the time, of course.
>
> Liam
>
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> http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ * http://www.fromoldbooks.org/
>
>



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