RE: Save the XalanCompiledStylesheet Object

[David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM]

Hi Jacky,

Please don't cc me on replies to the list -- you just end up sending me
multiple messages.

You cannot serialize a compiled stylesheet to a byte stream.  It's not
clear that reconstructing a stylesheet from a byte stream is that much
faster than re-parsing it, so that functionality has never been
implemented.

There are several ways to do this:

   1. Use an instance of a XalanTransformer to compile all of your
   stylesheets and keep the instance around for as long as you need the
   stylesheets.  If you have multithreaded code, you'll need to serialize
   access to this instance when parsing stylesheets.  When you're done with
   all the stylesheets, destroy the XalanTransformer instance.

   2. Create the stylesheets yourself, without using a XalanTransformer
   instance.  This is fairly easy to do -- just use the code in
   XalanTransformer as a model.  When you're done with a stylesheet, you'll
   need to delete it yourself.

In any case, you absolutely cannot do a memcpy of the object -- this is
C++, and memcpy is not the way to copy objects.

Hope that helps...

Dave