Re: [xsl] Question of performance

["Ragulf Pickaxe" <jawxml at hotmail dot com>]

Hmmmm,

They are of some 15 lines about which 5 of them are context dependent. My 
thought is that the rest of the 10 lines may be put into a separate variable 
that can be declared globaly (that is, if performance will be better).
The static lines are simple html/javascript code, since the xsl is used for 
generating webpages from xml documents.
This is the amount of complexity in the variables.

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On the same subject, I have a function (template) that is called recursively 
which also has a variable, ...Aposthrophe>'</xsl:variable> that is used in 
the template to escape aposthrophes in a string:
<xsl:when $Char=$Aptosthrophe">
  <xsl:value-of select="concat('\',$Aposthrophe)"/>
</xsl:when>

As the variable is declared in the top of the template, is this declaration 
processed each time (I think that it must) and would the code be faster, 
though less maintainable, if I declare this (static) variable globally?

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Is there a rule of thomb about when it is best to declare variables in xsl 
in their scope for better perofrmance compared to how readable the code in 
question is to be.

Ragulf


>From: ronald heller <ronald@salience.nl>
>Reply-To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>Subject: Re: [xsl] Question of performance
>Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:53:27 +0100
>
>I would say it also depends on the complexity of your variable and what
>your preocessor needs to do to get the value, can you post an example?



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