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Hello everybody,

I´m trying to do some in-database XML transformations from one XML format to another with a rather complex xsl stylesheet of about 9000 lines of code which performs this transformation. At first I tested the XDK XSLT functionality by simply doing a Transformation over the JAXP API outside the Database. It performed not bad, altough the memory consumption was a little bit higher then Saxon or Xalan. After that I read about the possibilities of in-database transformation, which should consume less memory because of oracle´s xml features like scalable DOM, XML Indexing and Query Rewriting when using object relational or binary storage. So we loaded our testdata into the db (we are using 11gR2 on a test system with Intel Core2Duo @ 3GhZ and 3GB RAM), in different XML storage options (XMLTYPE CLOB, Binary, OR) and tried to do a XSLT transformation on the columns. But it isn´t working.

The db seems not to be able to cope with the transformation although the parser and processor should be the same as the off-database transformation that was working well (or am I wrong?). After half an hour we aborted because the db hadn´t finished the transformation yet (the off-db transformation of this 100KB XML took less then a second). We tried indexing the columns with XMLIndex, didn´t work out, we tried both XMLTYPE´s XMLtransform() and dbms_xslprocessor.processxsl(), same problem, the DB is working and working with no result, after some time we have to terminate. With a simple teststylesheet the transformation is doing fine but our complex stylesheet seems to be the problem.

My question is, why is the xslt performance so poorly with the complex stylesheet and why can I use the XDK Parser and Processor in an off-db transformation very efficiently but when doing the same transformation in the db it´s not working.

Hope you can help me out a little bit I´m really running out of ideas.

Greetz dirac