RE: [xsl] performance and the xsl:for-each-group instruction

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would expect the performance to be fairly similar. Muenchian grouping is
pretty efficient, it's hard to improve very much on it. The big advantage of
xsl:for-each-group (at least with the group-by option) is usability, not
performance.

Michael Kay 

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# From: Gruenewald, Terry [mailto:tgruenewald@xxxxxxxxxx] 
# Sent: 24 March 2004 21:00
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# Subject: [xsl] performance and the xsl:for-each-group instruction
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# Does the xsl:for-each-group instruction have a performance 
# benefit over using the Muench method, or is it just syntactic 
# candy?  I've been testing xsl:for-each-group against the 
# Muench method in Saxon 7.8 and I don't see any performance 
# gain.  It would make sense (at least to me) that 
# xsl:for-each-group could operate much more efficiently than 
# the Muench method since it knows what you want to do is group.  
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