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RE: XSL: For-Each Efficient or Not?
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:32:59 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] XSL: For-Each Efficient or Not?
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> We have been trying to determine whether using XSL:For-Each
> is having an impact on the speed of our document publishing.
> Some of my buddies don't want to use xsl:for-each because
> they believe it causes the process to take a longer amount of
> time than just doing a template match over and over. Is this
> true or no? Is xsl:for-each a performance hog or does it and
> template matching take the same amount of time?
>
Measure it and see. The results will depend on which XSLT processor you
are using. My guess is that there will be very little difference. The
arguments against xsl:for-each are based on maintainability, not on
performance.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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