Hi,
  I am trying to make my xslt transformation faster.
Sample of my My XML is as follows.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<AssessmentData xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" >
  <PSHistory>
    <ContactedTime i:nil="true" />
    <DocumentationIncomplete>false</DocumentationIncomplete>
    <FamSocHistNotes i:nil="true" />
    <FirstAssessment>true</FirstAssessment>
    <HelpAtHome>2</HelpAtHome>
    <HelpAtHomeNo>true</HelpAtHomeNo>
    <HelpAtHomeYes>false</HelpAtHomeYes>
    <IsDirty>false</IsDirty>
  </PSHistory>
</AssessmentData>

My XSLT contains the following sample structure.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" 
exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"
               xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
                xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes">
 
  <xsl:output method="text" indent="yes"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:for-each select="AssessmentData/PSHistory">
        <xsl:variable name ="SHVar" >
          <xsl:if test ="HelpAtHome = '1'">
            <xsl:text>has help at home, </xsl:text>
          </xsl:if>
          <xsl:if test ="HelpAtHome = '2'">
            <xsl:text>does not have help at home, </xsl:text>
          </xsl:if>         
        </xsl:variable>
        <xsl:if test ="string-length($SHVar) >0">
          <xsl:value-of select 
="substring($SHVar,1,string-length($SHVar)-2)"/>
          <xsl:text>. </xsl:text>
        </xsl:if>        
    </xsl:for-each>    
       
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Eventhough the PSHistory occurs only once in Assessments, i have used a 
xsl:for-each stmt. Could this be slowing down my Transformation? Is there 
anything i could do to speed up the Transformation?
I am new to XSLT.
Thanks in Advance for your help.