Memory leak in document() function in xalan

[Paul Hunnisett]

We are currently working with xalan 2.6.  There are a lot of dependencies so I'm not sure if upgrading to 2.7 would be easy for us.

Anyway, the problem that we're having is that one application uses an XSL transform and relies on a helper xml file which is pulled in via the document() function.  We are finding that this causes massive memory problems.  I can only assume (perhaps I'm wrong on this) that xalan is gettign a dom of that file for every document() call and then not releasing references to that object.  Has anyone else come across anything like this?

Does anyone have any wisdom as to how we might go about working around this?  We also run these stylesheets in MSXML which, I'm told, doesn't supprot XSLT 2 - so any XSLT 2 solutions may not work for us...

Cheers

Paul Hunnisett