RE: [Scrollkeeper-devel] questions, questions

[Bob S. <bo...@sc...>]

> From: Gregory Leblanc <GLe...@cu...>
> 
> > From: Ali Abdin [mailto:ali...@au...]
> > 
> > Cocoon looks like an amazing project actually ;) But are 
> > there some DocBook
> > XSL's out there? (for DocBook -> HTML conversion) ?
> 
> Yep, they're available from Norm Walsh, at the same place as the DSSSL
> stylesheets.  Hmm, URL...  Try http://www.nwalsh.com/docbook/xsl/index.html

I've used Norm's XSL stylesheets in Cocoon, and
it is currently too slow to be acceptable for a
web server.  His stylesheets are very big and take
a considerable time to load.  In general, processing
XML with XSL on the fly is not quick.  Cocoon relies
on caching to give decent performance, but a document has
to have been cached.  Browsers processing XML with XSL will
have to work hard to not appear sluggish.

I think the performance of XSL processing will improve
within six to twelve months.  If I were setting up a server
today, though, I would preprocess all my XML docs into HTML
files to be served.  Cron jobs or time stamps would have to
be used to keep the HTML current. This would be similar to
man pages being nroffed into cat files to improve
performance when Unix machines used to be slower.

bobs
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