Re: Re: [xsl] Importing compiled stylesheets

"Mike Brown" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> I would prefer exsl:compiled-stylesheet-href for the name of the 
> attribute.

This would give the impression that only a single compiled stylesheet is 
referenced. In fact the included stylesheet may and often would include 
other compiled stylesheets, therefore I think that:

  <exslt:include-compiled-module href="hrefToCompiledStylesheet"/>

is slightly more precise in meaning.


>
> Re: implementations, add ours to the list. 4Suite supports compiled
> stylesheets -- they are pickled Python objects -- although it should be 
> noted
> that our stylesheet reader is now so fast that it is actually *less* 
> efficient
> to use these 'compiled' stylesheets than it is to let the processor read 
> raw
> XSLT from a memory or file system-based stream ... unless you're dealing 
> with
> ginormous, multiple external entity-laden sheets like DocBook XSLT.


The intended use of the new extension element is not only to boost 
performance, but also to make possible to deploy *libraries* of 
xsl:function -s in a single module compiled module. Because the module is 
compiled, it would be possible to hide the source code and to protect the 
intellectual property of the developers.

To summarise, there are three expected benefits form the new
     exslt:include-compiled-module
element:

      -  performance;
      -  deployment;  and
      -  source-code protection


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev