Re: [xsl] Improving efficiency of an XPath expression?

["Michael Beddow" <mbnospam at mbeddow dot net>]

David,

Thanks for the pointers but

> 
> Are you restricted to XPath only (ie you can't use xsl:key)

Yes, I'm stitching nodes together before letting XSLT loose on the results

> and are you restricted to mot using a DTD (so you can't use id())

In practice yes. Durring the document production phase, these were
pukka dtd-declared ID's, but at this stage I don't think I can afford the 
overhead of keeping validation.

Michael
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