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RE: optimize XPath query to speed up processing
- From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman at CraneSoftwrights dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 09:59:50 -0400
- Subject: RE: [xsl] optimize XPath query to speed up processing
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At 2002-08-08 09:54 -0400, Jiang, Peiyun wrote:
Is "/*/*/section|/*/*/*/section|/*/*/*/*/section" more efficient than
"//section"?
Yes, because "//section" will not stop when it finds a section, it will
continue looking within any found section for any descendent section all
the way to every element leaf of the node tree.
................... Ken
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