XInclude - optimization/alternatives to

[Sreedhar Chintalapaty]

Title: Glacier

Hi all,   I am using XInclude to process a content page and place the title, author, and article into different cells in a table.   Content File: featuredArticle.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsp:page xmlns:xsp="http://apache.org/xsp" xmlns:xsp-request="http://apache.org/xsp/request/2.0" xmlns:dbtags=http://gvs/dbtags>     <page>         <title>Fall in New Hampshire</title>         <writer>The Itinerant Monk</writer>         <article>             blah-blah-blah             List of Hiking Trails             <dbtags:get-list-of-trails/>         </article>     </page> </xsp:page> Style Sheet: formatter.xsl <table>     <tr>         <td class="title">             <xinclude:include href="http://localhost/cocoon/gvs/xsp/{$tab}/{$request-url}#xpointer(//title)"/>         </td>     </tr>     <tr>         <td class="title">             <xinclude:include href="http://localhost/cocoon/gvs/xsp/{$tab}/{$request-url}#xpointer(//author)"/>         </td>     </tr>     <tr>         <td class="title">             <xinclude:include href="http://localhost/cocoon/gvs/xsp/{$tab}/{$request-url}#xpointer(//article)"/>         </td>     </tr> </table>   This does what I want it to do, but at a cost: The -entire- featuredArticle.xml is loaded three times, parsed three times and, for the get-list-of-trails tag, the database is queried three times - you get the picture.   There must be a better way to do something like this... I would appreciate any suggestions/advice/pointers...   Thanks, and Best Regards, Sreedhar Chintalapaty __________________________________________________________________________________________ A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy - Joseph Campbell