RE: XML/XSL on the client for dynamic UI

[Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>]

> If you want to process very large documents with a small JVM 
> heap using XSLT, the alternatives I see are:
> 
> - drastic subsetting of XSLT
> 
> - use a RandomAccessFile to provide random access to the XML document
> without having to keep it all in memory
> 
> - use a multi-pass strategy
> 

Or the option provided in Saxon 4.7, which allows you to apply the
stylesheet to a subtree of the source document as if it were an entire
document: so for example you can apply your stylesheet to each chapter in
turn, meaning you only need enough memory to hold one chapter. 

Mike Kay


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