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RE: Re: Efficiency, use param in key?
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 23:27:01 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Re: Efficiency, use param in key?
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> > 1. Avoid expressions like "//file_audio"
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> <file_audio> appears in quite a number of different contexts
> and I expect those to change over time. So if I don't want to
> enumerate those contexts in my stylesheet it seems I am stuck
> with it. The good news is this would only be used
> infrequently as part of an inventory check...
If you're using Saxon, the other good news is that the first reference
to //file_audio will search the document for all these elements, and
subsequent references won't need to do it again.
But with other processors, assigning a global variable to this node-set
might be a good idea.
Michael Kay
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