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

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

>  don't think I can afford the 
> overhead of keeping validation.

you don't need to validate, you can use a non validating parser with a
one line dtd that _only_ declares id to be of type ID. the overhead of that
is a lot less than the overhead of evaluating // (I'd guess, but don't
trust me on implementation issues)

David

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