RE: Splitting file into N-sized chunks

> From: Martynas Jusevicius [mailto:martynas.jusevicius@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 5:10 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Splitting file into N-sized chunks
>
> 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?

If you are using Saxon you can use the saxon:string-to-utf8(), but that
assumes that your XHTML output encoding is going to be UTF-8.  If your
XHMTL output encoding is going to be UTF-16, then you probably can use
the XSLT string-length() function.

If you are not using Saxon, but using XSLT 2, you can use the XSLT
string-to-codepoints() function and calculate the UTF-8 length based on
the codepoints.  I did that for a project back a while ago that wasn't
using Saxon.

Everytime you output a tag, whitespace or text you will have to keep
track of its length.  Since you will always have a static XHTML header
and footer that wraps your content, you might pre-calculate that length
rather than calculate it on the fly.


Hope this helps, Andy.