Subject: Re: [xsl] Max size? From: Peter Finch <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 20:38:56 +1100 |
> I have a "hypothetical" question. If I were to generate very large XML > files (upwards of 1 Meg?), would I encounter problems when processing with > XSLT, considering that I would want to sort on various elements. > > We are busy doing some tests and I would be interested to compare our > results to existing findings. (We are using xalan/xercses on Linux).
It Depends on your machine, parser and the style sheet, but a 1 Meg XML file should not be a problem. Some of my customers work with BIG files... 10's to 100's of Meg and more (believe it or not).
I recently did some work on a 157Meg document. Of all the parsers I tried I have to admit the one from Microsoft (msxsl) flew and used up a relatively small amount of memory so I can recommend it as a place to start looking (Hats off to the guys-n-girls at MS for that one at least).
On a Dual AMD1400 with 512meg RAM a 13 Meg XML 5 Seconds and a 157 Meg XML file took about 4 minutes with memory usage peeking around 380Meg. It's all about memory as (I think) most of the parsers build a tree in memory before they starting to processes the transformations.
I'm pretty sure most of the Java based pasers will have no trouble with a 1Meg(ish) document.
Cheers, Peter
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