XSLT & hello

[Phillip B Oldham]

I don't think its a definate that the XML tree is going to be loaded 
into memory twice. Some apps might build the XML as a string (ugly, but 
possible), or simply pass-through an existing file. There's even the 
possibility that it might pass-through from a feed of some kind if nginx 
is working as a load-balancer/reverse-proxy.

Given the right features I think such a module would be a great addition 
to a great webserver.

Chris Farmiloe wrote:
> Thanks for all your comments. In summary:
>
> pros:
>  -- some nice tricks could be done to switch transformation templates
> based on the request (or even not transform at all in the cases where
> clients can do it themselves)
>  -- probably some good opportunities for caching of xsl templates
>
> cons:
>  -- very likely to be less efficient at nginx level since we would
> have loaded the XML tree into memory twice (once in app server and
> again in nginx to perform transformation)
>
> Because of my particular need to only process transformations for
> legacy clients, I think a third-party xslt module is still an option.
> But I hadn't thought about the rather pointless double XML parsing, so
> I'll have to think a bit more.
>
> chrisfarms
>
>
>   

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*Phillip B Oldham*
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