Subject: RE: [xsl] xslt on server-side vs. client-side From: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:42:51 -0600 |
Chris, If there is use of the XSLT on the client side then you may save some costs, in some cases. However, I think I was clear that, in restricting this to 1000 different clients for 1000 total passes, that no reuse was happening...? In that particular case, suppose that we have two units of work: some HTML we want to produce on the browser and some XML and XSLT we want to transform to produce this HTML. The odds that the XML/XSLT combined in size are smaller than the HTML are extremely low (at least for the XSLT I've written, it is a rather verbose language!). So, there are no traffic savings in the simple scenario that I've described (if the XSLT is reused on the client it's a different matter). Now let's also suppose that the work to process the XML/XSL is equal to the work to render the HTML (a likely generous assumption): 2 units of work total. Then sending the work to 1000 clients results in 2000 units of total work being done. If you do the same processing on the server, the XML/XSLT will already be at least partially cached (on a properly designed server the efficiency of re-running the transform will be high). I've seen work loads drop by orders of magnitude for subsequent passes, but let's say the result is a 50% reduction in work load (again being generous). In that case, the total work done with the processing on the server is 1000+1+499.5 = 1500.5 units of total work (1000 units of client rendering, 1 full pass on the server and 999 passes at 50% of the original cost). A more realistic scenario would see something like 4000 units of work on the client side and 1000+4+399.9 = 1807.8 doing it all on the server). Don't misunderstand me, I'm a big believer in distributed computing -- I founded the distributed computing Project for SHARE (now SHARE/GUIDE) some 12 or so years ago. However, the original assertation that sending an XML/XSLT transform to the client somehow automatically saves electricity just doesn't pan out. Yes, there are cases where sending a transform to a client make sense. However, many people seem to use the MS IE combination to process XML/XSLT simply because they don't have the ability (knowledge/whatever) to process it on the server side. In such a case, it's likely not sound ecological reasoning that's driving the decision! XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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