I am in the exact same situation as far as my xml source. I've currently been using a DOM XSLT transform and sending that result to FOP.
I built the latest CVS so I could try SAX (since the SAX input is broken in .20.1). But as you'll see below, the times seem about the same. I also don't know what to do about the logger errors in the latest cvs. And finally I really like the way .20.1 shows you where the page breaks are as it reports it's progress back to the program. Is that gone for good? I think keeping the page numbers in rows rather than streaming down the screen makes the console output easier to read for developers. By the way I did a little rough benchmarking on FOP embedded in a servlet. (I'm running on a Weblogic development box - Wintel - P-III - 933). I tried three different methods: a DOM source, a SAX stream from an XSLT transfrom, and the XSLTInputHandler (I serialzed the xml source out to a file). The XSLT transform is pretty simple as the xml-data is already well structured. Interestingly all three took between 50-51 seconds to render a ~5000 line report into a 300k, 200 page PDF document (there were a lot of page breaks). I'm thinking that's not too bad. Especially since in our case I don't think the end user will be able to tell the difference between render time and download time. Do these numbers sound about right? -Matt Rob Heittman wrote: > > Would it cause problems to provide an alternate constructor for > XSLTInputHandler ... ? > > XSLTInputHandler(InputSource xmlsource, InputSource xsltsource) > > in addition to: > > XSLTInputHandler(File xmlfile, File xsltfile) > > I am working with XML which is streamed directly out of a repository, not > a file, and could get rid of a bunch of lines of redundant code in my app > if I could use FOP's XSLTInputHandler instead. > > If this makes sense, let me know and I'll be happy to provide a patch. > > - Rob > > -- > > Rob Heittman > > cluestream ventures | effective information management > research, development, analysis and consulting > http://www.cluestream.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
