Scanning the entire bible to pick a chapter seems very wasteful. If you never serve more than one chapter, why not store the chapters separately?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Author of Soap Programming with Java - Sybex; ISBN: 0782129285 > -----Original Message----- > From: Adrian Petru Dimulescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 2:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: slow xalan transformation > > > Hello, > > I installed today a cvs cocoon on a Tomcat 4.0.3 / jdk > 1.3.1_01 and it works > fine if it weren't for the slow xslt transformation. > > What do i mean by slow? > > I want to make HTML versions of Bible chapters. In order to > do that, I have a > main biblie.xml file which includes all its chapters using > entities. I apply > a stylesheet which simply selects a chapter and then another > stylesheet which > transforms this selection to HTML markup. > > it should be said that the xml file (with its chapters) is no > small xml file > (it is the Bible after all). > > the relevant sitemap.conf part: > > <map:match pattern="carti/**.html"> > <map:generate src="carti/resources/{1}.xml"/> > <map:transform > src="carti/stylesheets/tei-select-subdiv.xsl"> > <map:parameter > name="use-request-parameters" value="true"/> > </map:transform> > <map:transform src="carti/stylesheets/{1}-html.xsl"/> > <map:serialize/> > </map:match> > > > I measured the time it takes several xslt processors on my machine > (Thunderbird 1.2 GHz, 250MB RAM) to isolate a chapter of the > Bible (say, > Genesis or Matthew) > > * xalan2 (Java): 40 seconds > * saxon6.5 (Java): 18 seconds > * xsltproc (C): 3 seconds ! > > Under jdk1.4 xalan is catastrophic: it takes more than 2 > minutes to do this > transformation. > > Now, my question is: do you think these times are normal, do > they include DTD > validation and if they do how can I disable DTD validation? > > Is there a Java solution to this problem (other than writing > a TraxTransformer > implementaion which would simply execute xsltproc?) > > == > Thank you, > Adrian Petru Dimulescu. > > > > * * * > > PS: > Here is a sketch of the biblie.xml: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-2" ?> > <!DOCTYPE TEI.2 PUBLIC "-//TEI//DTD TEI Lite XML ver. 1//EN" > "/home/dadi/xml/dtds/tei/myPizza.dtd" [ > <!-- Vechiul Testament --> > > <!ENTITY facerea SYSTEM "capitole/facerea.xml"> > <!ENTITY iesirea SYSTEM "capitole/iesirea.xml"> > <!-- ... and all the other chapter here ... --> > > <TEI.2> > <text> > <body> > <div0 type="parte" id="vt" n="1"> > <head>Vechiul Testament</head> > > &facerea; > &iesirea; > > <!-- ... and all the other chapters here ... --> > </div0> > > </body> > </text> > > </TEI.2> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
