Paul Tremblay:
I thought I was mistaken. But here is the quote:
"One caveat about data conversion applications: today's XSLT
processors all rely on holding the data in memory while the
transformation is taking place. The tree structure in memory
can be as much as ten times the original data size, so in
practice, the limit on data size for an XSLT conversion is a
few megabytes. Even at this size, a complex conversion can be
quite time-consuming, it depends very much on the processing
that you actually want to do."(p. 45. Kay, Michael, *XSLT 2nd
edition. Programmer's Reference*: Arden House, Birmingham,
Acock's Green, Canada, Wrox Press, 2001.)
Michael Kay:
You may have read "a few" as meaning "1 or 2", but that's not what I
wrote. I was suggesting the heuristic "if you've got a 64Mb machine
don't try to process more than about 6Mb of source data."
For those interested in streaming data through XSLT processors, the following
link might be useful:
http://www.aztecrider.com/bigxml/index.html
The link describes
"a Java library that provides an object representation of a XML
document designed to work with big XML documents. It is realized as a plugin
to
the XSLT processor jd.xslt and can especially be used to transform such big
XML
documents with XSLT."
The processor the quote above is talking about is jd.xslt,
http://www.aztecrider.com/xslt/
David Tolpin
http://davidashen.net/
XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list