There has been a bit of an awkward bug in Apache Xalan for a while now, and that bug is XALANJ-2540. The effect of this bug is that an internal SPI configuration file is loaded by Xalan thousands of times per XPath expression evaluation, which can be measured easily as such: this: Element e = (Element) … Continue reading How to Speed Up Apache Xalan’s XPath Processor by Factor 10x
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Use Xalan’s extension functions natively in jOOX
jOOX aims at increased ease of use when dealing with Java's rather complex XML API's. One example of such a complex API is Xalan, which has a lot of nice functionality, such as its extension namespaces. When you use Xalan, you may have heard of those extensions as documented here: http://exslt.org These extensions can typically … Continue reading Use Xalan’s extension functions natively in jOOX