RE: [xsl] Saxon .Net API performance

["Merrilees, David" <David.Merrilees@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Andrew

Some of our XSLT is unwieldy, and upgrading to XSLT 2.0 will help us organise
our code more effectively. What will really help me sell this change to the
people holding our purse strings is performance improvements. Apart from
grouping, what features of XSLT 2.0 can I take advantage of to improve
performance?

Thanks

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Welch [mailto:andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 01 September 2010 07:55
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Saxon .Net API performance

>
> I'm trying to show the performance difference we could achieve by moving to
Saxon .Net API from Microsoft's XSLT 1.0 processor. Does anyone have any tips
how I can get the best performance from the Saxon .Net API?
>
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I spent a few weeks at Tesco and the XSLT 1.0 stylesheets were pretty large
and complex... the biggest benefit would simply be upgrading to XSLT 2.0.

So perhaps rather than saying "I can get a nn% performance improvement" you
could say "all of this complexity goes away" - complexity both in the
stylesheets themselves and steps in the processing pipeline that would no
longer be needed.



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