Re: [xsl] saxon8 running out of memory

["Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/01/2008, Terry Ofner <tofner@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have several documents I need to transform using XSLT 2.0. However,
> with very large xml input files I have noticed that Saxon 8 (or java)
> runs out of memory, kicking out this error message:
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
>
> Is there a way to allot more memory at the command line or in a
> config file?
>
> I am running this on Mac OS x 10.4.11
>
> java version "1.5.0_13"
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_13-
> b05-241)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_13-121, mixed mode, sharing)
>
> My command line:
>
> java -jar /usr/local/bin/saxon8.jar input.xml sort.xsl > sortout.xml

Use the xmx switch, eg:

java -Xmx512m .....


cheers
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