Hi all,
I have xml files with thousands of sibling nodes, I want to transform
the xml so that all this nodes gets grouped in subset of n elements. I
have wrote an xsl file for this but it's very slow and I have big
files: 20 minutes of cpu time for 20MB file.
Here's an example code.
--input XML--
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<report>
<object>1</object>
<object>2</object>
<object>3</object>
<object>4</object>
<object>5</object>
...
<object>100</object>
</report>
--output XML--
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<report>
<object-collection>
<object>1</object>
<object>2</object>
<object>3</object>
<object>4</object>
<object>5</object>
</object-collection>
<object-collection>
<object>6</object>
<object>7</object>
<object>8</object>
<object>9</object>
<object>10</object>
</object-collection>
...
<object-collection>
<object>96</object>
<object>97</object>
<object>98</object>
<object>99</object>
<object>100</object>
</object-collection>
</report>
-- XSL --
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version='1.0'>
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="*|@*|text()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/report">
<report>
<xsl:for-each select="./object">
<xsl:if test="position() mod 5 = 1">
<object-collection>
<xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
<xsl:variable name="count" select="position()"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="../object[$count +
1]"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="../object[$count +
2]"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="../object[$count +
3]"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="../object[$count +
4]"/>
</object-collection>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</report>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
My solution is the above, but it's not time efficient. Is there a way
to do it better?
