Re: libxslt speed (was Re: jrb help: XML & HTML)

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

Wow - and even more so if I compare this to emacs psgml mode which
taks several seconds to parse DTD. Maybe we should rewrite psgml mode
to use libxml :)

Anyway: I am now convinced and withdraw my suggestion to ship both XML
and HTML. 1 second is not worth it. 

Sasha

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:48:05PM -0600, John Fleck wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:54:12PM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:41:35AM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to write this parsed DTD to disk?  Emacs psgml does
> > > this, although it only works on a per-document basis, which wouldn't
> > > help us that much.  
> > 
> >   Hum, .... 
> > 
> > there is a private API
> > static void
> > xmlDtdDumpOutput(xmlOutputBufferPtr buf, xmlDtdPtr dtd, const char *encoding);
> > which allows this, this is not exported. The main probalem as always
> > is that if someone change something in the internal subset, the DTD might not
> > be correct anymore, but the risk is relatively small for our documents.
> > 
> 
> This is a clever idea, but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. The
> parsing time (if you use catalogs and load the DTD from the local
> disk, which we do) is less than 0.1 sec. If we're trying to shave
> every ounce off of the frame for performance, maybe, but the real time
> is spent actually applying the stylesheet, not in parsing the doc or
> the stylesheet.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> John Fleck
> jfleck inkstain net (h), http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/
> 
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