What is the size of XML documents that can be reliably transformed using
XSLT ?
This question is w.r.t a reporting application that i am writing where,
the data is fetched from various sources (like database and ldap etc.),
it is put in a xml format and saved. Then we use xsl to transform it
into html and serve it to the end user on a web browser.
The report data xml file may be huge, ranging from a few hundreds of
records to thousands.
The user is presented with only 10 records at a time. This is done by
using xsl to transform the report xml file into html and just pickup
first 10 records initially. When the user presses next, i again pickup
this xml file apply xsl and pickup next 10 records. This way i am able
to provide him paging functionality, and do not need to re-generate the
report everytime.
Similarly user can sort by clicking on a column header. Again i go back
and transform the xml using xsl:sort etc..
What i am worried about is what would be the behaviour when there are is
too much data in my xml file - say 5,000 or 10,000 records. What is a
reaonable maximum.
(As you can see one of the reasons xml is being used here is to avoid
re-generating the report everytime user clicks NEXT/PREVIOUS etc.. So
xml is also a caching mechanism here.)
Please let me know your valuable inputs in this regard
Jitu
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