• To: "'Andrew Welch'" <AWelch@p...>,"'Martin Bravenboer'" <martin@c...>
• Subject: RE: Fast text output from SAX?
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:06:03 +0100
• Cc: "'XML DEV'" <xml-dev@l...>
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> This just uses an inbuilt 'identity transform' stylesheet, 
> that roughly
> outputs a copy of it's input.  For this to happen it needs to build a
> tree of the source, so the performance benefits of using SAX are
> effectively lost at that point.

You're making assumptions about the implementation.

I don't know what Xalan does, but Saxon's implementation of the JAXP
identity transform does not build a tree representation of the source
document.

Michael Kay

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