So, your application is crashing and it is crashing in the bad way. After spending hours of debugging and trying different things you figured out that this is this Xslt stylesheet that causes all the problems. How come? XslCompiledTransform is a compiler...

Xml is ubiquitous. No doubt about it. It is being used almost everywhere and almost by everyone. This includes places where huge amounts of data are being processed. This means xml files (or streams) used there are also huge. And the bigger the Xml file...

“XslCompiledTransform is fast.” “Really?” “Yeah, XslCompiledTransform is fast… if used correctly.” Indeed, depending on how you use XslCompiledTransform API your transformations can be really fast or not-that-fast (to say the least). The key to understanding...

XPath expressions are pretty flexible. This flexibility allows for very creative ways of using XPath. Unfortunately some of them are suboptimal and cause bad performance of apps. This is especially visible in Xslt transformations where stylesheets contains...

This is the first part of a mini-series of blog posts about using Xml on .NET Framework platform in an effective way. Although I will be focusing on .NET Framework platform I hope that at least some of the information will be general enough to apply to...