[XML-SIG] 4XSLT Performance Problems with Large Files

[Thomas B. Passin]

[Brian Quinlan]

> Are there any features of 4xslt that you need that aren't available in
> other XSLT processors? Or is it just the convenience of doing XSLT
> transformations directly in Python that leads you to want to use 4xslt?
>
Sort of.  This transformation is actually being done by Saxon, so I'm not
directly affected so far.  The same system runs Zope to interact with users,
and I do use 4xslt via a Zope external method, although the data isn't so
massive.  I still need good performance there, but it should be easier to
get a reasonable response time.

Mainly, I don't want to start a separate process each time a user runs a
transform.

> If it is the later, Python buildings for Xalan, the Apache groups XSLT
> processor, are available (the Windows release has the most convenient
> installation process, if you have a choice of platforms to experiment
> with):
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28142&release_id=4
> 7388
>
>
I haven't used Xalan for a while and have been meaning to get the latest
versoin to try on this.  The Python binding might be good to try.  Thanks.

Cheers,

Tom P