Subject: RE: [xsl] flushing a variable in XSLT From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:55:47 -0000 |
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to "flush" the contents of > a variable in > XSLT? I am using XT to do transforms on fairly huge XML files and am > creating several large node-sets during the course of the > processing. I > wondered if it were possible to clear their contents from > memory as soon as > I have finished with them in order to speed up the transform. > (1) Java is quite good at doing garbage collection of things that are no longer referenced (2) xt is extremely good at lazy evaluation of node-sets, so they rarely take up any memory. (3) A consequence of (2) is that it would be very dangerous to guess when you have finished with a variable: when you think you've finished with it, xt probably hasn't even started with it yet. Mike Kay Software AG XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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