Re: XSL-FO to PDF conversion speed

On Mon, September 30, 2013 9:12 am, Jesper Tverskov wrote:
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> Even split seconds gained ad up, but could there be other speed
> benefits from using an XSLT 2.0 Saxon processor compared to good old
> XALAN when we are talking about a batch job?

With an XSLT 2.0 processor such as Saxon, you may be able to modify your
stylesheet to use collection() [1] and, with Saxon, Saxon's extensions [2]
to read and process all the files in one go rather than firing up the JVM
for each.

Even using Ant may be quicker than, e.g., a batch file since by default
Ant will reuse the same 'stylesheet transformer' for every 'transform
operation'.

Regards,


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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-operators/#func-collection
[2] http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/index.html#!sourcedocs/collections