XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Steve Loughran" <steve.loughran AT gmail.com>]

On 29/03/07, Michael Kay <mike AT saxonica.com> wrote:
> >
> >  > Java 1.5's xslt engine is very memory hungry...it leads to
> > a lot of  > 'ant runs out of memory in junitreport' support
> > calls. If you are  > using xsl and want to stick with what is
> > built in, run the JVM with  > extra memory.
> >
> > It may be because Sun decided XSLTC would be the default
> > rather than the interpreted mode:
>
> That may have caused compatibility problems, but I'm not sure why you are
> suggesting that it caused performance problems.

I dont suggest its slow, but by using XSLTC they consume more memory,
and that leads to support calls.

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27541  //JunitReport
task fails under JDK 1.5
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34342

> But of course anyone looking for performance will be running Saxon anyway -
> I tested a customer stylesheet today and Saxon was a factor of 5 faster and
> took one third of the memory.

nice.