> -----Original Message-----
> From: jd [mailto:jiglu_desai@yahoo.com]
> Posted At: Thursday, November 25, 2004 7:55 AM
> Posted To: microsoft.public.dotnet.xml
> Conversation: performance of system.xml vs msxml4.0
> Subject: performance of system.xml vs msxml4.0
>
> I have an xsl file to generate xml in to an html file. The size of
> the xsl is 300kb and size of the xml is 47 kb (the size of xml is
> variable).
> I am using VB.net to convert the xml file into an html file. The
> vb.net module peforms following task:
>
> load the xml file in XMLDocument object ( I can't use XpathDocument
> object)
> load the xsl file in XSLTransform object
> perform the transformation.
>
>
> When I was using VB6 with Msxml 4.0 parser, I was getting good
> performance results. The transformation was completed in an average
> time of 40-50 milli second. When the same trasformation was
> performed using system.xml the timings came around 100-120 milli
> second.
>
> Secondly as the size of the xml increases, the timings with system.xml
> increased significantly when compared with msxml 4.0.
>
> Is the use of System.xml slow compared to msxml 4.0 ? Is the
> statement "System.xml is based on msxml3.0" true?
> How can I improve the timing while performing the transfromation using
> xsltransform?