Is there a technique to combine a pipeline of XSL transformations into a single transformation?

Question

I have written an application which uses a pipeline of 15 XSL stylesheets, and I\'m beginning to work on tuning its performance. It\'s designed to be portable, so that it ca

Answer 1

One approach is to use modes http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#modes but you are right that that requires transforming each step into a variable and to use a node-set extension function to be able to apply the next step to the variable contents.