Indeed, I'm not able to make the stylesheet available. But it would have only served
as a model anyway, not a useful stylesheet for others, because it was so specialized.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Catterall" <>
To: "Bob Stayton" <>; "docbook-apps"
<>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] gentext.template eats 1/3 of CPU
> Bob
> I imagine these belong to your client, but would it be possible make something like
> this freely available? I know: just what does the user want and not want. Not
> easy. And anyway, not DocBook philosophy. Just a thought, there's a lot of Docbook
> I never use, but I'll stick with the full DocBook.
> Ron
>
> Bob Stayton wrote:
>> I had a client who needed speed and did not need all the
>> features, options, and customizations, so I wrote a new set of XSL templates that
>> did exactly what they wanted for the elements they were using, and no more. They
>> were fast. And they were simple enough for them to maintain.
>>
>> Bob Stayton
>> Sagehill Enterprises
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Kost" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 6:29 AM
>> Subject: [docbook-apps] gentext.template eats 1/3 of CPU
>>
>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> I have a first version of a callgraph profiler for libxml/libxslt
>>> (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612186). With this I looked
>>> at profiles for applying the docbook stylesheets. These are the topmost
>>> entries:
>>>
>>> index % time self children called name
>>> 0.043 0.380 1947/3287 gentext.template.exists [4]
>>> 0.002 0.397 234/3287 *[object.title.template]
>>> [49]
>>> 0.380 0.380 1071/3287 gentext.template [0]
>>> 0.000 0.397 17/3287
>>> part[object.title.template] [90]
>>> 0.000 0.397 18/3287
>>> chapter[object.title.template] [102]
>>> [0] 33.26 0.380 0.380 3287 gentext.template [0]
>>> 0.380 0.380 1071/1071 gentext.template [0]
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>> 0.009 0.149 786/3967 *[find.chunks] [19]
>>> 0.010 0.154 738/3967 href.target.uri [18]
>>> 0.012 0.241 754/3967 *[chunk-filename] [16]
>>> 0.056 0.202 1638/3967
>>> *[recursive-chunk-filename] [2]
>>> 0.001 0.136 35/3967 in.other.chunk [76]
>>> 0.001 0.173 16/3967 process-chunk [55]
>>> [1] 11.84 0.135 0.000 3967 chunk [1]
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> lines with [x] in begin are the templates. lines above the callers,
>>> lines below the callees. Any idea how to make gentext.template less
>>> slow? Or make it called less often. There sees to be many:
>>> match="*" mode="object.title.template"
>>> and
>>> match="*" mode="object.title.markup"
>>> leading to it, but I can't see any template that uses e.g.
>>> mode="object.title.markup"? Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Stefan
>>>
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