You can use a single instance of TransformerFactory to create multiple
template objects.

However you need a new transformer (by calling a transformer for a template)
for each transformation.

-Vasu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Duffey [mailto:kevin.duffey@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 12:20 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  TransformerFactory.newInstance()..is it needed every
> time?
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> In looping through X number of XSL pages, trying to create a 
> Template object
> for each, I am doing something like:
> 
> TransformerFactor tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
> Template t = tFactory.newTemplate(xslSource);
> 
> So I ask, is it necessary to create a new TransformerFactory on each
> iteration? Or can I just use a single instance to create many Template
> objects, each with their own XSL source stream?
> 
> I am trying to cached pre-compiled XSL pages, to speed up the 
> transformation
> process.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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