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Re: [xsl] XML to Table

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> the xsl is too  slow

that's not surprising, given that you have multiple uses of // each of
which can be read as "search the entire document".

for example

 <xsl:for-each select="ROWSET/ROW">

at this point the current node is a ROW element.
but here
   <xsl:for-each select="//DETAIL/COLUMN">
You ignore the current node, and search the entire document for DETAIL
elements and COLUMN children You may know that the DETAIL element is
always a child of the top element, but the system will not know that and
searches every A B C element looking for DETAIL. Use /XML/DETAIL not //.
Incidentally you shouldn't use an element name of XML as it is rserved
by teh XML specification (although most systems do not complain about
this)

then you search the entire document again, for ROW elements
  <xsl:when test="//ROW[@num = $row]
and just pick ones with the same number as you had above,
so this part of it is just the parent element of the attribute node you
  have saved as $row, ie it is just  <xsl:when test="$row/parent::ROW

It's hard to give specific advice as I don't think you have specified
exactly what the transformation is that you want to perforrm: what is
your input document like It is presumably similar to your output format
but differing in some way.

David




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