On paper, it sounds good, but in practice, our experience seems to show that anything but the most trival stylesheets will often require some "in-memory tree representation" to process properly. Stylesheets that are "purely declarative" and are focused primarily on output formatting might benefit, although the moment any slightly complex nesting comes into play, the implementation complexity of a code to support a serial transformation seems to go up exponentially!
Rick Bullotta CTO Lighthammer Software (www.lighthammer.com) Voice: 610-903-8000 x14 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Serial/streaming transformations proposal An interesting proposal for serial/streaming (SAX-to-SAX) transformations is starting to take shape at http://www.gingerall.cz/stx/stx-draft-0.02.html.; Curious on what people think. Probably we should try prototyping something along these lines soon... though I would prefer basing it on a pure XSLT subset. Or not? -scott
