Sylvestre, A couple of things may help. Make sure that your catalogs are operating correctly and that the resolution of them are not going out to the net to resolve entries. This can slow things down greatly.
Also, have you thought about using XSLTPROC instead of Saxon. I maintain my Docbook tools so that I can use both Saxon and XSLTPROC but Saxon is slower. XSLTPROC is in most Linux distros and there is a Windows package also. Which version of Saxon are you using and what version of Java? Regards, Dean Nelson In a message dated 09/10/09 05:09:38 Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hello, I am currently trying to improve the build time of the documentation of a free scientific software (Scilab). There are almost 1800 XML files. The size of these files is between 1 k to 10 k. Before calling saxon, some processing is done (mathml => png through jeuclid, etc) and finally merged all of them into a single file [1]. This file is processed against chunk.xsl or javahelp.xsl from docbook-xsl. Both are taking a long time (pretty much the same). However, the build time is way too long (between 30m to 60m on a powerfull computer to hours on a small CPU). Especially for some small architectures like s390 or armel... For example, Debian compilation chains are killing the process since it is taking more than 150 minutes, just to "load" the XML. Therefor, I am trying to improve the speed of the process. I wonder if there are any tricks to improve the speed. Some people told me that the merge of all xml files is not necessary but I haven't been able to find how to do it. I was wondering if there is a better way to structure the XML document. For now, it is (mainly) structured the following way (by merge of all xml files): <book> <part> <title>title of the chapter 1</title> <refentry> Details about the function [...] </refentry> <refentry> Details about the function 2 [...] </refentry> </part> <part> <title>title of the chapter 2</title> <refentry> [...] </refentry> </part> </book> Some rare refentry are also stored in some <chapter> <section>. There are quite many links between all the refentry (especially coming from the "see also" section). Does anybody know how to improve this ? Note that the PDF or PS generation is very fast and based on the same master xml file. Many thanks, Sylvestre PS: I sent this email on the saxon mailing list. They told me that this is most probably due to docbook and not saxon. [1] http://www.scilab.org/team/sylvestre.ledru/master_en_US_help-processed.xml.gz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
