Subject: Re: SAX mode, DOM mode and caching From: "Tangi Vass" <tangivass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:05:06 +0100 |
> > It is well known that XSL processors are usually faster in SAX > > mode than in DOM mode : XT is a good example. > > You need to be clear about what you mean here. All current XSLT processors > use a internal object model that may be a DOM or a proprietry model. If you > pass SAX events as input the processor still builds an object model. I don't > think there is any generic reason that creating an internal model from > SAX events should be any quicker than from a DOM. I don't know much about the internals of all the current XSLT processors but XT can work in two different modes: SAX and DOM. In both modes, the stylesheet is parsed into a proprietry DOM-like object model (OM). In the SAX input mode, an object model is still built but only for the events used by the current processing, ignoring the non-relevant ones. > > However to allow the caching of documents and stylesheets, I patched XT to > > add a hook in the DOM mode for a cache. So I now use it in a "cachable" > DOM > > mode which is faster than SAX. > > I am assuming you are caching the XT internal OM not a DOM per say. If so > the speed improvement is simply because you are not building the XT > internal object model each time. I'm caching the XML documents as DOM trees, and the stylesheets as OM trees. > > I've been thinking of a cacheable queue of SAX events. I would like to > have > > the opinion of you, folks, about this idea before trying to implement it. > > XT is still going to have to convert those SAX events into a object model > before it can use them. There is some saving in not re-parsing the original > XML but it won't match caching the XT object model. > I already cache the XT object model, I'm now looking for extra improvements : saving the re-parsing seems to be a good candidate. Tangi XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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