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XSL is like a nuclear weapon, it might serve a purpose but firing in anger is a bad idea and not terribly scalable.

Does XSL Leak File Handles?

No, but it may appear to in some use cases. If you use redirect:write a lot for example:

   <redirect:write file="{$outfile}">
   ...
   </redirect:write>

The solution here is to bracket the write with open and close so that the engine does not have to implicitly track the open file stream:

   <redirect:open file="{$outfile}"/>
   <redirect:write file="{$outfile}">
   ...
   </redirect:write>
   <redirect:close file="{$outfile}"/>