RE: [xsl] Speed: xsl with xml vs. html and the world

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:07 AM 8/19/2004, Mike wrote:
> Converting your XML to HTML at publishing time will almost certainly give
> you a performance advantage over doing it at page delivery time, provided
> that your content is sufficiently stable to make this possible. It's also
> simpler and likely to improve availability.

Then too, what's "publishing time" will vary, and if it's very frequent (or 
continuous), that might shift the balance back to transforming on request.

What M.David said about caching and the conveniences afforded by modern web 
servers and XML frameworks is very relevant, too (while acknowledging the 
truth of "simpler is better", particularly when my server is down, ehe).

Somewhat more reflectively, I have often supposed that the practicality of 
batch-mode publishing (which many of us do) makes it impossible to discern 
how much data on the web is actually being generated, at some point in its 
lifecycle, from XML source. It is in connection with this kind of 
observation that SGML (whence XML was derived) has been called (in a book 
by Chet Ensign) the "Billion-dollar Secret".

Cheers,
Wendell


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