If your string XML is going to be run through XSLT like Xalan, it WILL BE parsed anyway, and most likely it will be parsed using a SAX parser (the default Xalan behavior). Therefore there is no overhead whatsoever compared to what you would do in any other solution. In fact, if you look at the code I sent yesterday, the main issue was not with parsing the original XML (this is given), but with avoiding the necessity to store the intermediate xsl:fo document that comes out of the transformer before being fed into FOP. By using SAX events at this point you save a lot of memory and streamline the process.
Yuri. -----Original Message----- From: Ulrich Mayring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 4:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Question on XSLTInputHandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You can use org.apache.fop.apps.Driver to get the > org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler and fire sax events on that. Well, my XML is unparsed and in the form of a java.lang.String, so parsing it just to fire SAX events seems to be a bit of an overhead, no? You're probably wondering where my XML is coming from, if it is unparsed, a String and not from a file. Well, here goes: I load an XML document from a file. I receive some XML fragments via a socket connection and merge it rather unceremoniously with the XML from the file (via textual replace basically). Then I do some database stuff, which gives me more XML fragments, and I merge them in as well. So, the XML document I have in the end is a java.lang.String and it has been created without any parsing or other standard XML procedures. I'm looking for speed in this case, not intelligence :-) Anyway, thanks everyone for the many tips, I think I'll be able to solve my problem :) cheers, Ulrich -- Ulrich Mayring DENIC eG, Systementwicklung --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
