Just to give everyone some information about the memory issue.
All previous releases of FOP have done the following: - parse the xml file - build an object hierarchy representing the xml - convert these objects into an area tree - render the area tree This means that in memory there is a full object representation of the xml document, a full area tree of the output document and a full rendered document at the same time plus overhead. Obviously this tends to use a lot of memory. If you use dom then you will also have the xml dom document in memory, FOP simply uses it as SAX anyway. This was recently altered (0.20 I think) so that the area tree was kept only of page sequences and some of the output document was written immediately. This improved it depending on your documents but was not a complete solution. The problem is mainly design, the original design is from quite a while ago and was never changed to handle the situation better. So now we are attempting to redesign FOP so that memory use is better along with the more important issue of layout. This redesign will probably take at least 6 more months to complete at the current rate. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
