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RE: SAX or DOM for XSLT
- To: "'xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com>
- Subject: RE: SAX or DOM for XSLT
- From: Kay Michael <Michael dot Kay at icl dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 09:57:04 +0100
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
> "The DOM works best for XSL Tranformations .....".
> Does any one know if this means that we wont be able to use
> XSLT in msxml3
> without creating two DOM instances - will there be support
> for large volumes of source XML via SAX2?
All current XSLT processors require the source document tree to be held in
memory, and this imposes a practical limit on the size of data file that you
can transform. The amount of memory will vary between processors depending
on the tree implementation, but the general rule still applies.
Mike Kay
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