RE: XSLT and Text Processing Languages

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <TRA@xxxxxxxx>]

> Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
> 
> > I beg to differ.  Given an 150 Mb XML input file, my memory 
> usage with Omnimark 5.1 grew to 400 Mb, and I was working 
> with a strictly local program.
> 
> I'd love to see how much memory XSLT would require for the same file
> :-). Seriously, this sounds like your program is storing much of the
> data in memory for some reason or another. You can always use 
> temporary
> files instead of buffers it you want to cut down on the RAM
> requirements, or see if it is really necessary to store all 
> this info. A
> simple transform in OmniMark requires very little RAM. 

The XSLT processors I tried (Saxon and XT) was around 900 Mb.  Xalan fares better due to more efficient internal representation.

I am going to try to see how the new Perl implementation does when we get some spare time.

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