I converted my whole site to XML/XSL and I would like to know all of the current issues with performing Client-side XSLT.
Here are the ones i already know of (from first
The XSLT file is another object which needs to be downloaded and the browser will only fetch 2 or 3 items in parallel. My experience is that the overall performance (download and generation) is noticably slower.
Also, depending on the complexity and redundancy of the data, you might be downloading much more than you really need to - ie. if the HTML had already been rendered.