Re: [docbook-apps] GSoC Project Idea: integrated LaTeX output support for the stylesheets

[Stefan Hinz <stefan.hinz@oracle.com>]

Hi Jirka,

> > The chunked HTML output of the MySQL Reference Manual (see e.g.
> > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/index.html) took about 12 hours
> > to build, as opposed to the single-file output which takes "just" about
> > 3 hours. The remaining 9 hours were entirely spent on chunking the HTML
> > with XSLT (aka the DocBook XSL standard way of doing this). Last year,
> > we created a chunker.py Python script that chunks the single-file HTML
> > (which is now the only HTML variant we're building with XSLT), and it
> > brought down the chunking portion of build time to 3 seconds (no joke!).
>
> If chunking takes 4x longer then single page HTML then there is either
> some problem with XSLT procesor you have used and how it's configured or
> there is some fundamental flaw in stylesheets which should be discovered
> by using profiler.
>
> Which XSLT procesor you have used?

Plain old xsltproc.

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Cheers,

Stefan Hinz <stefan.hinz@oracle.com>, MySQL Documentation Manager

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