Re: [xsl] Using Saxon 8.5 and collection() to process a directory of XML files

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

> You can call saxon:discard-document() to make a document available for
> garbage collection when there are no outstanding references to it.

ah, thanks.

So does that  mean  that one shoudn't make a global variable

  <xsl:variable name="collection" select="collection(...

  <xsl:template name="main">
    <xsl:for-each select="$collection/saxon:discard-document(.)" ...


as that will force you to keep the document around forever in case I go 
$collection[66]/a/b/c at some strange point? Or can your stylesheet
analysis detect that the variable is only used in a top level loop?


Should I instead go


  <xsl:template name="main">
  <xsl:for-each select="collection( ...)/saxon:discard-document(.)"



so that outside the loop the node is not accessible (without reparsing
the document)

David

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