Re: [xsl] Breaking up a large XML document into several smaller ones

[Eliot Kimber <ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glen Mazza wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I searched the XSLT FAQ and could not find an answer to this.  If only
> for proof-of-concept (we may find better solutions not needing this),
> I am interested in breaking up a very large XML document into multiple
> smaller ones, and was wondering if XSLT would be a good solution for
> this.  For example, if I have the following:


> Can this be done via XSLT, or would a SAX-based solution be more
> appropriate, or?

It can, using XSLT 2's result-document instruction (this requires a 
proprietary extension in XSLT 1).

The main issue would be the size of the input documents--XSLT processing 
is usually more memory constrained than SAX processing.

Also, a SAX processor would probably be more efficient if processing 
speed is a concern.

Otherwise, with XSLT 2 this is just a generic identity transforms 
augmented with templates for the elements that should result in new 
documents and, probably, a function for constructing result filenames.

Cheers,

Eliot
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