Re: [xsl] Splitting file into N-sized chunks

Subject: Re: [xsl] Splitting file into N-sized chunks
From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:22:15 -0400
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Martynas Jusevicius wrote:
> Well it doesn't have to be exactly 300K, could be less of course :)
> But XHTML needs to be valid.
> So any ideas on (roughly) calculating the size? Number of characters perhaps?

XSLT is not a good tool for this job.

XSLT operates on the data model of an XML document, not on the syntax.
Things like namespace declarations could have a significant impact on
the size of a serialized element, and it is not possible to tell in XSLT
how big it will end up.

~Chris
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