RE: [xsl] Caching while applying XSL using SAX

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> In my application I'm using SAX based approach for parsing xml and
> applying xsl on it. As SAX is event based, I just want to 
> know that how
> the reference in xsl, to out of context elements is  resolved.

Even if you supply input to an XSLT processor as a stream of SAX events,
it's likely to build a tree in memory.

There are some processors (usually expensive ones like DataPower) that
handle some transformations in a streaming mode, but only if the constructs
used in the stylesheet permit it.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/