> convert the xml to dom, do your mods and then back to xml, as a CF > developer, it much easier to work IMHO with the xml dom as structures > etc than messing around with...
DOM is nice, but when you start using large XML files, the DOM is a waste of memory and it is slow - if your luck enough to fit the whole tree into memeory. Its a waste especially if you only need a part of an XML document. XML -> XSL (with SAX) -> DOM I don't know of a more elegant way to do it. The DOM is great, wonderful, and fabulous for small documents where you need access to the all the nodes. XSL is also great to do XML -> PDF transformations (lookup Formatting Objects) I am speaking from the server side btw. I am very *bias* though, here is a link to my free open source XSL IDE http://treebeard.sourceforge.net Cheers, Rob -----Original Message----- From: Zac Spitzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:25 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: opinions about XSL Alex wrote: > What other option is there to transform xml docs? convert the xml to dom, do your mods and then back to xml, as a CF developer, it much easier to work IMHO with the xml dom as structures etc than messing around with... apparently one of the problems with XSL as an approach performance wise is something to do with the way that it progressively processes the xml file and has to do some prediction stuff (read more overhead) as it goes... you can do amazing stuff with xml and css, write a style sheet which hides nodes ( display:none;) now if only we could get everyone to upgrade to mozilla.. then life would be so much easier.. back to workarounds, again :-( ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
