Re: "Re: [xslt] Apply stylesheet to a subbranch of a document"

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:38:52PM +0200, Kasimier Buchcik wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> > Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>  Well try the function modification, we will put a big warning in the API
> >>description
> 
> This mail refers to this initial mail:
>    http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xslt/2003-September/msg00019.html
> 
> We modified xsltApplyStylesheetInternal to provide the ability to apply 
> a stylesheet to a subbranch of a document. It worked well by simply 
> changing the initial context node. But we ended up wondering why the 
> heck we should mess with the specs. Originally I was influenced by the 
> behaviour of the m$xml 4 parser on that issue. IOW: keep it as it is; we 
> will find an other way.

  Hum, okay. I wonder a bit what made you change your mind,
but that's fine :-)

> Anyway, thanks for the discussion!

  no problem.

> By the way: serializing documents took long time if using functions like 
> xmlDocDumpFormatMemoryEnc, until we discovered that serializing directly 
> to file was way faster (by the factor of 50 sometimes). I know that 
> there was a message about this issue already somewhere on the list; so 
> this is just a hint for those who transform huge documents and process 
> further with the resulting xml-text. We did a workaround by serializing 
> to file and then reloading the document.

  Hum, wasn't that fixed in the last versions ? If not open a bug in bugzilla
so it get checked and fixed if it's not already. 

  thanks,

Daniel

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