Re: [xsl] eenie meenie mini mo - nominate your input.

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26 Mar 2014, at 23:46, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> joining 2 files - you have to select one as the stylesheet input and
> you will doc over the other one (possibly using xsl:key as well).
>
> One file is much larger than the other.
>
> Should it make a difference to performance which file you nominate as
> input to the stylesheet.
>

It shouldn't, but that doesn't mean it won't.

You can't ask questions about performance without saying what processor you
are concerned with.

And the best answer to performance questions is always: measure it.

Incidentally, it's not true (from XSLT 2.0) that the inputs have to be
asymmetric. I will often supply both inputs as stylesheet parameters, and have
no principal input document.

Michael Kay
Saxonica