Subject: RE: [xsl] Design of inheritance in XML and resolving it with XSLT From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:03:49 +0100 |
> Two designs come into mind: > > Design I: > <style name="A"> > <style-props prop-1="x" prop-2="y" prop-3="z"/> > </style> > <style name="B" parent="A"> > <style-props prop-1="v" prop-22="yy" prop-33="zz"/> > </style> > > Design II: > <style name="A"> > <style-props prop-1="x" prop-2="y" prop-3="z"/> > <style name="B"> > <style-props prop-1="v" prop-22="yy" prop-33="zz"/> > </style> > </style> > > > In both design the style properties should be interpreted as: > style 'A': prop-1=x, prop-2=y, prop-3=z > style 'B': prop-1=v, prop-2=y, prop-3=z, prop-22=yy, prop-33=zz > > What do you imagine is a better design? I would tend to prefer II, but either is quite viable. The advantage of II is that you can easily search for the nearest attribute using (ancestor-or-self::style/@prop-1)[last()] whereas design I needs a recursive function (or template) to do the navigation. > > How can I map it most efficiently to absolute styles? > Creating a large variable for all mapped styles right at the > beginning or map them just-in-time when found accepting > redundancy in multiple mapping of the same style? With Saxon you could get the best of both worlds with a memo-function. Otherwise it essentially depends on the average number of times each style is "computed". If the average is much less than one, do it on-demand, if it's much greater than one, do it eagerly; otherwise, you'll have to measure to see where the cut-off comes. > > In case the only way is the empiric approach to implement > both ways and test which is faster in an XSLT engine, any > links to such performance harness to reuse (preferable Java)? > Remember that performance measurements will vary from one XSLT processor to another. With Java, remember that warm-up time can dominate the measurement - any measurement run should execute for at least 30 seconds to get reproducible results. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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