DOM input to Saxon (was: MSXML vs. Saxon: different handling of tabs & newlines)

["K. Ari Krupnikov" <ari at iln dot net>]

Kay Michael wrote:

> It's actually a problem implementing the whitespace-stripping rules when you
> take input from a DOM, since there's a reasonable expectation that the XSLT
> processor shouldn't modify the input tree, and doing whitespace-stripping on
> the fly as you navigate the tree is likely to be incredibly expensive. If
> you supply a DOM as input to Saxon, I copy the whole thing into a new data
> structure (which is also expensive).

So if I have a DOM that's a facade to some other data structure (a
filesystem, or even a database) of non-trivial size, will Saxon run out
of memory?

-- 
K. Ari Krupnikov

DBDOM - bridging XML and relational databases
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