RE: [xsl] saxon in batch file for lots and lots of xml files

["Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>]

I'd be cautious of using this approach with 500 files, because files are
held in memory for the duration of a transformation. Doing 500 separate
transformations is definitely better.

Mike Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of
> Alek Andreev
> Sent: 29 January 2002 20:03
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] saxon in batch file for lots and lots of xml files
>
>
> I ran into the same problem and I decided to change my batch file so
> that it created a temporary XML file pointing to all the
> other XML files
> to include.
>
> BuildAll.Bat (with line
> numbering)----------------------------------------------------
> ---------
> 1:	@echo off
> 2:	echo Building pages...
> 3:	echo ^<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?^> > _build.tmp
> 4:	echo ^<builds type="%1"^> >> _build.tmp
> 5:	for /r %x in (*.xml) do echo ^<build file="file:/%x"/^>
> >>c:\mywebsite\_build.tmp
> 7:	echo ^</builds^> >> _build.tmp
> 8:	xt   _build.tmp stylesheet.xsl
> 9:	del /e _build.tmp > nul
> 10:	echo Done.
> 11:	beep
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> ---------------------------
>
> Put this file in your root XML folder.
> Things you need to customize:
> Line 5: change c:\mywebsite\ with the path where BuildAll.Bat resides.
> Line 8: change to reflect the syntax of your XSL processor
>
> This will produce a file, called _build.tmp which looks like:
> _build.tmp----------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> -------------------------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">
> <builds type="release">
> 	<build file="file:/c:/mysite/page1.xml"/>
> 	<build file="file:/c:/mysite/page2.xml"/>
> 	[snip]
> </builds>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> ---------------------------
>
> Then, you should modify your XSL file to handle <build> tags:
> stylesheet.xsl
> (part)--------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> ----------
> 	<xsl:template
> match="builds"><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:template>
> 	<xsl:template match="build"><xsl:apply-templates
> select="document(@file)"/></xsl:template>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> ---------------------------
>
> Run buildall.bat and voila!
>
> Regards,
> Alek Andreev
> alek@post.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com] On Behalf Of ronald
> heller
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:00 AM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] saxon in batch file for lots and lots of xml files
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have a large directory with rather small xml files. There
> may be well
> over 500 files in there.
> Once a day these files are transformed with saxon 6.2.
> Although this goes well, it takes a lot of time.
> I have a feeling that is is not the transformation itself that takes a
> lot
> of time, but that the starting and closing of saxon is.
> let me show you some code from the batchfiles:
>
> 1.bat:
> ---------------------------------------
> for %%b in ("*.xml") do call 2.bat %%b CC
> rem. for each xml file that is found I call 2.bat
>
>
> 2.bat
> ---------------------------------------
> java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -o "%1-a" "%1" "convert.xsl"
> rem for each file that has to be transformed saxon/java is started and
> closed.
>
> Is there a quicker/smarter way of doing this?
>
> any help is appreciated
>
> Regards,
>
> Ronald
>
> (ps I tried Instant saxon, but that gives more or less the
> same results)
>
>
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