>> Do you use any EXSLT string extension functions? They create result >> tree >> fragments with token element nodes: >> >> http://exslt.org/str/functions/tokenize/index.html > > Agh! Indeed there are some uses of that in some stylesheets, I missed it > in my previous searches. So... if that extension function is creating > these huge DTM documents, do you know if they ever get released? Or will > they hang around as long as I I hang on to a Templates object?
I was looking in the org.apache.xalan.lib.ExsltStrings class, and every call to tokenize references a cached static Document instance. Could this be causing all resulting all created Elements in every invocation of tokenize() to get retained in the JVM forever? It almost seems as such, given the number of these <token> elements piling up in my application's heap. -- m@
