Re: [xslt performance for big xml files]

Finally - the real reason for posting to this thread --
* If you are repeatedly scanning the same XML document and generating
 different things, such as reports or small documents, consider an
 XQuery implementation that uses an index.  E.g. for a file this
 small, the free MarkLogic or Qixz/fe engines would work fine I
 expect; the first is limited to 50MBytes (or was last I looked) and
 the second to a gigabyte.

* If you read the document once, but tend not to need to look ahead or
 behind very far, you could split the input into smaller XML files,