On Friday 04 June 2004 14:29, Jeff Kenton wrote:
There are people who have 100 megabyte product catalogs in XML files. They
obviously don't serve the whole thing to a web page, but they do use XSLT
to process those catalogs, and produce small web pages or XML output for
reports.
We have seen really two types of request coming for very large transform
support. The first is from companies where the data size is within the range
of an object model based implementation, but who are aware that the ceiling
for such solutions is not far above them. The second is companies who are
doing data streaming (with embedded transforms) between systems. While you
could argue that the first group will sleep better if they employ 64-bit
machines this really does not address the CPU costs issues. The second group
is harder to deal with in that they can view XSLT as just another pipeline
process. To be fair there are not a significant number of companies with
these problems but they do exist.
Kev.