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RE: [xsl] Transforming large XML docs in small amounts of memory

2007-04-30 04:48:42

It's purely XSLT 1.0, using Saxon (on Linux and Windows, if 
that matters...), although suggestions to change this would 
not be shunned.

Just as an experiment, try it on Saxon 8.x rather than Saxon 6.5. It doesn't
always make any difference, but on some occasions I've seen it make a
dramatic improvement.

I think that transforming 150Mb of data in 400Mb 
of RAM would be a sensible target (is this sensible?)

That's ambitious. To achieve that, you're going to have to do something that
condenses the input document before transformation.

I'm not sure how to tell what proportion of the memory is 
used for the input DOM, output DOM, etc...

If you really mean "DOM", then start by not using a DOM, and using a Saxon
TinyTree instead. (Saxon doesn't use any memory for the final result tree -
it's normally piped straight into the serializer).

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


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