RE: [xsl] optimize XPath query to speed up processing

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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