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I'm writing an XSLT service using SaxonJS, where one stylesheet may be used many times, across many different requests.

Looking at the documentation, it looks it would be most efficient to re-use the stylesheetInternal, that is returned as part of the result of SaxonJS.transform.

I was wondering if it is possible to serialize this stylesheetInternal so I can store it in a cache for later re-use? Or is it necessary to keep it in memory only?

I've tried both SaxonJS.serialize and JSON.stringify but neither of those work. SaxonJS.serialize just returns <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> and JSON.stringify complains about circular references.

Here's my code:

import fs from 'fs';
import { execSync } from 'child_process';
import SaxonJS from 'saxon-js';

const defaultXMLPath = 'input.html'
const defaultStylesheetPath = 'stylesheet2.xslt'
const defaultSEFPath = 'stylesheet.sef.json'

execSync(`xslt3 -t -xsl:${defaultStylesheetPath} -export:${defaultSEFPath} -nogo`)
let xmlInput = await SaxonJS.getResource({file: defaultXMLPath})

let transformResult = SaxonJS.transform({stylesheetFileName: defaultSEFPath, sourceText: xmlInput, destination: "raw"})
let xsltOutput = transformResult.principalResult.data
let primedSef = transformResult.stylesheetInternal
console.log(`xsltOutput: ${xsltOutput}`)

// Check that primedSef works
let transformResult2 = SaxonJS.transform({stylesheetInternal: primedSef, sourceText: xmlInput, destination: "raw"})
let xsltOutput2 = transformResult2.principalResult.data
let primedSef2 = transformResult2.stylesheetInternal
console.log(`xsltOutput2: ${xsltOutput2}`)

// Serialize primedSef?
let serializedSef = SaxonJS.serialize(primedSef)
console.log(`serializedSef: ${serializedSef}`)

And the output:

Saxon-JS 2.1 from Saxonica 
Node.js version v14.16.1
Compiling stylesheet /xslt-service/stylesheet2.xslt
Stylesheet compilation time: 0.075s
Stylesheet exported to SEF file /xslt-service/stylesheet.sef.json
xsltOutput: 
        xslt-success
    
xsltOutput2: 
        xslt-success
    
serializedSef: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>