Andreas, Thanks again for your time. Nothing specific in using call-template instead of apply-templates.
Coming back to profiling, I tried taking a snapshot of the heap after a FOP conversion using Jprobe and Jprobe reports "CondLengthProperty" as the loitering object. Not very familiar with analyzing this further. I have a snapshot file and some screen prints of Jprobe, not sure how to post it in this forum. But this is how the reference tree to the object looks like : Root -> AreaTreeHandler -> XMLWhiteSpaceHandler -> Block -> TableCell -> CommonBorderPaddingBackground -> CondLengthProperty -> CondLengthProperty Not sure if I am doing the right thing, but I'm willing to help or contribute further on this. Thanks again for the help, karthik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]