Hi, Matt. "Matt Magoffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2008-03-12 06:30:08 PM: > >> 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.
Yes, that's almost certainly the problem. This has previously been reported as Jira issue XALANJ-2215.[1] Thanks, Henry [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-2215 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Henry Zongaro XML Transformation & Query Development IBM Toronto Lab T/L 313-6044; Phone +1 905 413-6044 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
