[xml] Performance of DOM interface

[wellnhofer aevum de]

Hi,

I'm using libxml and libxslt with Perl to generate dynamic HTML pages 
and did some performance testing recently. I created a XML tree from a 
Perl data structure using the DOM interface and transform that tree with 
XSLT.

While the performance of the XSLT transformation is really good, I found 
that constructing the DOM tree took about 75% of the running time. So it 
takes about three times longer to create the XML source tree than to 
parse a stylesheet and apply and output the transformation.

Is this behavior normal? I would think creating an XML tree is much 
faster than a XSLT transformation.

Please CC me. I'm not on the list.

Nick Wellnhofer


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