Hi,, Thanks for all the feedback. As I thought more about my requirements of counting nodes in the documents, I realized that writing a SAX parser to do such a trick would quite simple and more efficient than XSLT and DOM afaik. I thank you again for the info, which I have found valuable in my analysis.
Regards, Julian --- Dan Durkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julian, > > You may want to look using the cinclude transformer > and then some > additional xslt transformations for the merging > logic. > > HTH, > > Dan > > > Julian wrote: > > Mark, > > > > Does XSLT stream or does it use DOM via Cocoon > > pipelines? I plan on doing some further > processing of > > the merged document afterwards and thinking of > using > > XSLT there too. If you want more details, I > > summarized the overall process below. > > > > Thanks, > > Julian > > > > > > ********* > > My goal is to count the number of given elements > in > > the original documents. My plan is to merge the > > documents and then pass the merged document > through a > > stylesheet that would give me a count of the > number of > > child nodes within certain parent nodes with given > id > > attributes. The count would be placed into a new > XML > > doc. via XSLT that would be 10kb of less, and that > > would be easily loaded into DOM and parsed. > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Live simply so others may simply live. -Ghandi Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. "Entities should not be multiplied unneccesarily" -William of Occam __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
