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Re: [xsl] Measuring the complexity of XSLT stylesheets

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* James Fuller
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| if you are seeking a quantitative measure, long range power law
| correlations (LRC) were something I have used in the far past....it
| was fairly independent of problem domain.

A Google search does seem to indicate that LRC could be useful for my
purposes, but I'm clueless about how to compute it for XSLT
stylesheets.  Does anyone have pointers or ideas?
 
| I think with XSLT its useful to create a baseline of processing time
| relation to input xml, then from there make qualitative judgements
| on the uses of certain XSLT...

I think this is the other sense of complexity again. :)

| to be honest if you could define XPATH expression complexity then
| you have most the battle won.

True, but my problem so far is that I can't. :)

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