RE: [xsl] Get nodes with document() and applying templates to them

Subject: RE: [xsl] Get nodes with document() and applying templates to them
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:43:09 -0000
It's likely that most processors will load the whole document into memory.
After all, when you apply-templates to the Menu element, the template that's
invoked might do something like

xsl:if test="//X"

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antsnio Mota [mailto:amsmota@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 February 2005 17:35
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Get nodes with document() and applying
> templates to them
>
> BTW, when i do
>
> <xsl:apply-templates
> select="document('TreeMenu.xml')//Menu[Menu_K=current()/MenuDa
> ta]/Menu"
> />
>
> what is hapening? Does the entire TreeMenu.xml loads and then get the
> nodes selected, or by some magic only the nodes selected are being
> loaded?
>
> In my case i'm in a browser and the less trafic on the line
> the better...
>
> Or is this a stupid thing to ask?

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