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<title>Optimizing Stylesheets</title>
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.comment {
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font-style: italic;
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<h1>Optimizing Stylesheets</h1>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
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<p>
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This document outlines optimizations that we can perform on
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stylesheets after a stylesheet is compiled, but before it is executed.
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</p>
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<h2>Create AVTs out of xsl:attributes</h2>
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<p>
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People often write stylesheets like
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<pre>
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<LRE>
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<xsl:attribute name="foo">
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text here
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<xsl:value-of select="@bar"/>
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</xsl:attribute>
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</pre>
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This could be optimized into an AVT like
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<pre>
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<LRE foo="text here{@foo}">
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</pre>
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This can be done both in templates and in attribute-sets
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</p>
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<h2>Investigate how RTFs are being used</h2>
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<p>
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When only the string-value or double-value of an RTF is being used it
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is unneccesary to create an entire RTF. Instead we could set up a
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string-handler and use the resulting string.
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</p>
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<p>
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Once we have a node-set() function we could also have a special
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handler that creates that resulting nodeset rather then
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whatever-we-create-once-we-have-real-RTFs. That handler would be set
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up when we can determain that a RTF is used only as argument to the
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node-set() function.
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</p>
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<p>
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In cases where an RTF is used as parameter in a call to another
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template we could do further analysis to see how that parameter is
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used in that template. Either by first analyzing how all template
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parameters are used in all templates, or by recursivly searching
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the called template when we find that a RTF is used as an argument.
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</p>
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<p>
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We will still need a catch-all RTF implementation that is used when
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we can't determin how a variable is used, or when it is used in
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multiple different ways.
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</p>
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<h2>Inline/calculate constant variables</h2>
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<p>
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Variables that does not have a value that depends on the source
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document can be inlined into the stylesheet. The value of these
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variables could also be calculated before the transformation is
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started.
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</p>
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<p>
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This can be combined with the previous optimization of RTFs so that
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stylesheets like
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<pre>
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<xsl:variable name="v">_</xsl:variable>
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...
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<xsl:value-of select="concat(@id, $v, foo)"/>
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</pre>
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is executed like
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<pre>
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<xsl:value-of select="concat(@id, '_', foo)"/>
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</pre>
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<p>
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<p>
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This can be done for both global and local variables.
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</p>
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<h2>Resolve cross-references</h2>
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<p>
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Cross-references to named templates, attribute-sets and template-modes
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can be resolved before the stylesheet is executed. That way we don't
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have to search for the template/attribute-set with a certain name, or
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the group of templates for a certain mode.
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</p>
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<p>
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Note that for apply-imports we won't always know at compile-time which
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mode to seach for templates in.
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</p>
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<h2>Resolve variables by index rather then expanded name</h2>
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<p>
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Rather then seaching for variables with a certain name at runtime
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we could remove names for variables/parameters entierly and put all
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variables in an array (possibly a separate array for global variables)
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and then let variable-references in expressions just point to an index
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in that array.
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</p>
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<h2>Calculate and use constant AVTs</h2>
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<p>
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A lot of instruction-elements uses AVTs that often are constants in
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stylesheets, such as the data-type parameter to xsl:sort. For xsl:sort
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we could pre-create a finished nodesorter if all AVTs in all
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xsl:sort-elements are constant.
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</p>
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<p>
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Another example is xsl:element and xsl:attribute where we could use
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LRE-instructions if the AVTs are constant. For xsl:number we could
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create prepare the list of <code>txFormattedCounter</code>s.
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</p>
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<h2>Reuse parameter-map if exact same parameters are used</h2>
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<p>
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If a template calls another template and uses the exact same
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parameters we can reuse the same parameter-map.
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<pre>
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<xsl:template name="hsbc_html_body">
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<xsl:param name="appName"/>
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<xsl:param name="title"/>
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<body>
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<xsl:call-template name="hsbc_form">
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<xsl:with-param name="appName" select="$appName"/>
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<xsl:with-param name="title" select="$title"/>
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</xsl:call-template>
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</body>
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</xsl:template>
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</pre>
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</p>
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<p>
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We have to watch out for default parameter-values as well as
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parameters being specified by the caller of this template but not used
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by this template. I.e. if the parameter "hello" is specified when
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calling the above template.
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</p>
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<p class="comment">
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All this might make this optimization useless.
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</p>
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<h2>Combind consecutive LRE items into a txResultBuffer</h2>
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<p>
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When a template contains several consecutive "LRE instructions" such
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as LRE-elements, LRE-attributes and textnodes we can replace their
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instructions with a special instruction that contains a
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<code>txResultBuffer</code>. This buffer would then be flushed when
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the instruction is executed. This can of course not be done for
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LRE-attributes that contains AVTs. Even PI and comment-instructions
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can be included in this buffer if their contents is strictly literal.
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</p>
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<p>
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The result is that a template like
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<pre>
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<xsl:template match="/">
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<html>
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<body bgcolor="green">
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Here goes pagecontent
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<xsl:apply-templates />
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</body>
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</html>
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</xsl:template>
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</pre>
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Would result in the first <code>txResultBuffer</code> to contain the
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following transactions: eStartElementTransaction,
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eStartElementTransaction, eAttributeTransaction, eCharacterTransaction.
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</p>
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<p class="comment">
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There is probably a lower limit to when it's worth the effort to
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replace the normal instructions with the buffer-instruction. A single
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"LRE instruction" is probobably better kept as a normal instruction.
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</p>
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