XLST potential become a issue for very large design?

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I wounder if KiCad developer aware that using XML, and XLST for generate BOM going to be issue for large design, and very slow due to it’s architecture, and generate a file one time use file?

https://coderanch.com/t/427225/languages/Transforming-Huge-xml-MB-size

I would think in the future, it would be better to have action-plugin that allow users script to directly generate BOM from native file. This can be much faster, and do not required to dump everything into memory.

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that thread is 9 years old… do you have any evidence that this will be a problem in practice? I have a hard time believing any reasonable BOM will be an issue for a modern computer.

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This is a very trouble some technical assumption to me. Where people make fast computer slow again. Then ask for faster computer.

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Kicad does not limit users to xslt. You can for example run python scrips or nodejs. Both have very efficient xml parser libraries. (See my faq article for some examples: How to create a bill of materials (BOM)?)

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@Rene_Poschl: I do understand that.

I would think the current easy to do BOM from KiCad is the xlst dialog windows for BOM gen. I would rather to see the “action plugin” support in eeschamtic so we can run BOM gen from there instead of current XLST. I don’t think we event need to use XLST.

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There is no xslt dialog. The bom dialog does not even come pre filled with the xslt scripts. (On a clean install there is no script pre defined.) Read my tutorial. I show how to use one of the python scripts that are shipped with kicad.

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some times back I have faced an issue with xsltproc with a specific project(not mine) only partial BOM was generated and Kibom did it well.

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I just finish the script for my work. This is another way of doing CSV BOM <==> SCH (both direction):

  • bom2csv script: Is use to run from eeschma Generate Bill of Material/command line tool, it just all most the same with supplied one, but some special recognized fields in the order I
    wanted.
$ bom2csv.py
Usage  bom2csv.py <generic_netlist.xml> <output.csv>
  • bom2sch script: Run on command line tool, should take any csv output files from supplied eeschema BOM scripts (full or partial) and back annotate back to schematic. I try design this script so it can:
    • Run on very very large size project without using much of memory other than the whole BOM table.
    • Update the component’s value at the location where they were in the original schematic files, so diff is very easy compare to using KiField scripts.
$ bom2sch.py
2019-01-18 16:44:34,190 [bom2sch.py:257 ]
    bom2sch.py csv_file.csv [root_schematic_file.sch]

    root_schematic_file.sch can be automatically extracted from csv file
    where "Source:" field specified in the header meta data. This usually
    create by eeschema BOM generator scripts

beta scripts here

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FYI, pyc files are trivially converted to py source…

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"""myEqu is a more advanced equivalence function for components which is

used by component grouping. Normal operation is to group components based
on their value and footprint.
In this example of a custom equivalency operator we compare the
value, the part name and the footprint.

"""

look familiar?

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Yes. It have it own use!

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just saying if you’re worried about publishing the source, you already have.

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wow, uncompile really work, it just all most exactly source code! Well, I build .exe files for now.

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I able to put my “dumb” code here. Hope some one look at it, and let me know if I’m completely nuts :slight_smile:

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