Re: [docbook-apps] xinclude performance issues

[Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>]

What tools have you tried for doing Xinclude processing? Xerces?
xmllint? Xincluder? How does the performance of those compare when
you use them with your test document?

Raymond <support@bigriverinfotech.com> writes:

> docbook-dtd-4.5b1 docbook-xsl-1.69.1 jdk-1.5.0_4, kubuntu-5.04 oXygen-6.1 
> saxon-6.5.4
> 
> Have issues with slow validations and subsequent transformations of documents 
> utilizing substantial xincludes.
> 
> Discussions with users of other popular IDEs (both windows and java) resulted 
> in similar conclusions irregardless of  saxon, xalan or xsltproc processors: 
> xincludes are SLOW and processor intensive. A 120 document validation or 
> transformation with substantial nested xincludes take some 10 minutes on a 
> 1.7g cpu 1.25g mem centrino notebook.  The cpu hovers at 90-99% during these 
> validations or transformations.
> 
> xincludes / xpointers are essential to my document projects.
> 
> Any advice on how to optimize a large document validation and/or 
> transformation with substantial nested xincludes / xpointers???
> 
> Raymond

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