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I have noticed that the transformation engines such as xalan can be memory hungry when large conversions are taking place. The solution to this is to divide the XML content up before transforming.

The transformation that caught me out was on an XML file that was 200Mb in size. Assuming that the book isn't too large (e.g. 2Mb of XML) then you will have no problem using XSLT. W3 Schools have a nice xslt tutorial.

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Re: Re: Re: Difficult XML presentation issue
by stvn (Monsignor) on Feb 03, 2004 at 15:07 UTC
    inman

    Most DOM based parsers and transformation engines can be HUGE memory hogs since they need to load the whole document in memory. I have found though that SAX based parsers and transformation engines are much less hoggish and many times faster. Being stream based too they are ideal for online/real-time web transformations.

    -stvn
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