That's really good to know. Thanks
Matt Savino > > Doesn't XSLT ultimately need it's source XML in a DOM > object to run? > > It depends. One point is that DOM is an interface, and there > exist heavyweight and leightweight implementations. Some > XSLT processors can work directly from an arbitrary DOM tree > as long as read interface is supported. > > Many XSLT processors prefer to build their own internal > representation of the XML tree for efficiency rather than > using a DOM implementation from a library, quite a few do > this even if they are fed a DOM tree. The internal XML tree > representation may or may not resemble a DOM implementation, > and may or may not use or provide a DOM conformant interface. > > Some processors, specifically Xalan, are capable of "streaming > processing". They analyze the templates and start processing > immediately once a sufficiently large subtree is read. > Subtrees which has been processed are discarded, so there is > never a complete DOM in memory. This work especially well > if you are creating a (HTML-) table from a DB query result. > > J.Pietschmann > >
