Re: [xsl] XSLT internal tree representation in memory

[Jeff Kenton <jkenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

G. Ken Holman wrote:
> At 2003-09-24 10:42 -0400, Phyllis Tarascio wrote:
>
> > Does
> > the XSLT transformer need to load in the whole source document in 
> > memory in
> > order to read and parse it to create the internal representation of 
> > the tree
> > in memory?
>
>
> Yes.
>
> > it is unclear to me if
> > it needs to load the whole source document into memory before the process
> > can start.
>
>
> It does.  The very first template for the result node tree might need to 
> access the very last node (in parse order) in the source node tree.

Not only do most processors load the entire document, but the internal format is invariably larger than the source document, often by a factor of 4 or 5.




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