> Paul Tremblay: 
> 
> 	I thought I was mistaken. But here is the quote:   
> 
> 	 "One caveat about data conversion applications: today's XSLT 
> 	 processors all rely on holding the data in memory while the 
> 	 transformation is taking place. The tree structure in memory 
> 	 can be as much as ten times the original data size, so in 
> 	 practice, the limit on data size for an XSLT conversion is a 
> 	 few megabytes. Even at this size, a complex conversion can be   
> 	 quite time-consuming, it depends very much on the processing 
> 	 that you actually want to do."(p. 45. Kay, Michael, *XSLT 2nd 
> 	 edition. Programmer's Reference*: Arden House, Birmingham,    
> 	 Acock's Green, Canada, Wrox Press, 2001.)
> 
> Michael Kay:
> 
> 	You may have read "a few" as meaning "1 or 2", but that's not what I
> 	wrote. I was suggesting the heuristic "if you've got a 64Mb machine
> 	don't try to process more than about 6Mb of source data."
> 

For those interested in streaming data through XSLT processors, the following
link might be useful:

  http://www.aztecrider.com/bigxml/index.html

The link describes 

  "a Java library that provides an object representation of a XML
  document designed to work with big XML documents. It is realized as a plugin to
  the XSLT processor jd.xslt and can especially be used to transform such big XML
  documents with XSLT."

The processor the quote above is talking about is jd.xslt,

http://www.aztecrider.com/xslt/

David Tolpin
http://davidashen.net/



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