RE: [xsl] Performance Tuning

Subject: RE: [xsl] Performance Tuning
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:25:46 -0000
> The XSL that I use has  three "preceding-sibling::"
> The time taken to parse a 150KB XML in Xalan is 1.9
> sec and with Saxon8 its 1.6 secs.


With Saxon8 this is likely to perform much better using positional grouping:
xsl:for-each-group group-starting-with="pattern", for example. I'm afraid I
don't have time today to give you more detail.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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