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 Thanks a lot for the input, I'll try it out. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Michael Kay<mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Well it doesn't have to be exactly 300K, could be less of >> course :) But XHTML needs to be valid. >> So any ideas on (roughly) calculating the size? Number of >> characters perhaps? > > A lot depends on how far you want to go. If you're prepared to split it at a > boundary between children of the body element, it's not too hard. If you > need to cater for deeply-nested tables, with the possibility of having 500K > of text in a single table cell, then it's much harder. > > For the first case, it's a fairly simple exercise in sibling recursion: > write a template that processes the first child of <body>, and then calls > itself to process the next child (following-sibling::*[1]) and so on, > passing the accumulated text size as a parameter, and exiting when this > reaches some threshold. > > (I say simple, but I use this as an exercise on XSLT courses and some people > find it very difficult, if they're not used to recursive list processing). > > Regards, > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ > http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 
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