----- Original Message ----- From: "Ulrich Mayring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 5:26 PM Subject: Very basic SAX question
> Hello folks, > > I know that Cocoon2 uses a pipeline of SAX events all the way through > the processing pipeline. Is this also true for the XSLT stage? Or does > the transformer have to wait until the stream is fully there and start > transforming only then? AFAIK: The XSLT Transformer uses by default Xalan, which has a feature called Incremental processing. This feature permits the transformer to begin tranforming without ALL the elements, and waits for elements needed > I am asking, because in XPATH there are forward-referrals such as the > following-sibling axis. And when an element is referred to, that has not > yet arrived on the stream, what is the transformer to do? to wait...and collect elements > > Or did I misunderstand the SAX pipeline Cocoon2 uses and in fact at > every stage every component has to wait until the stream is complete? see above > > Thanks for any pointers, /Per-Olof Norén Stockholm, Sweden --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]