Re: [xsl] Efficient way to do an identity transform, eliminating duplicate elements, in XSLT 1.0?

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

So, how big is "big"?

My new home PC I bought in May has 32GB RAM.

It seems obvious that paying $2000 for a decent computer is so much
cheaper than paying programmers (myself included) to invent tricks ---
at least for this kind of problems.





On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I need to do an identity transform on XML files like this:
>
> <Document>
>     <First>
>         <id>A</id>
>         <blah>B</blah>
>         <id>A</id>
>     </First>
>     <Second>
>         <id>C</id>
>         <blah>D</blah>
>         <id>C</id>
>     </Second>
> </Document>
>
> I want the identity transform to remove duplicate elements in <First> and
remove duplicate elements in <Second>. So the output should be:
>
> <Document>
>     <First>
>         <id>A</id>
>         <blah>B</blah>
>     </First>
>     <Second>
>         <id>C</id>
>         <blah>D</blah>
>     </Second>
> </Document>
>
> I need to use XSLT 1.0 to implement this.
>
> I created an implementation, but it uses <copy> statements. The actual XML
document that I am transforming is huge, nearly 1 GB. When I run my XSLT
implementation the processor runs out of memory. I think it's due to the
<copy> statements. I need a very efficient implementation. Any suggestions?
>
> /Roger
>



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