Re: [xsl] Including a document

[Johannes Döbler <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A xslt processor should hopefully read and parse B.xml only when he 
evalutes the first document('B.xml')-call and reuse its internal 
representation when evaluating the second call.
Why? The processor has to obey the XSLT Rec.: "Two documents are treated as 
the same document if they are identified by the same URI." (chapter 12.1) - 
and using the same internal representation is the easiest way for that.

Cheers,
Johannes


> Hi Folks
>
>     I have an xml file called "A.xml" and a corresponding "A.xsl".
> Now in the file "A.xsl" I use document() to get the contents
> of another file "B.xml" and there are templates in "A.xsl" that display
> the contents of "B.xml".
>
>    What do I have to do to apply the get the contents of "B.xml"
> more that once. Currently I am calling document('B.xml') twice
> from A.xsl. Is there anyother way to do this other than calling
> it twice.
>
>   The reason I am not interested in calling document() twice, is because
> every time document is called, "B.xml" is read, parsed etc. and suppose
> if B.xml is a very large file, doing it twice seems a waste of resources.
>
> Any help or direction will be gladly accepted.
>
> Regards
> Joseph Rajkumar



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