Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] questions, questions

[Ali A. <ali...@au...>]

* Bob Stayton (bo...@sc...) wrote at 16:38 on 04/12/00:
> > 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.

Yeah, I asked Daniel Veillard about this. Note: Cocoon is in Java as far as I
know and we all know about Java performance on Linux (I'm hoping a C
implementation would show up so we can compare/benchmark it).

Daniel recommended for me to parse XML using DOM (until XSLT performance
improves).

I wonder how the performance would be if soembody used a "stripped down"
version of Norm Walsh's XSL stylesheet (I assume he supports a huge subset of
tags (all of DocBook?) while the GNOME project only uses ~120 tags).

Regards,
Ali