Re: Guidelines on marking up data using XML/XSL

[Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Francois Belanger wrote:
> 
> However you implement it, it's still within an eval, so it means
> validating, compiling, and executing the code just to access the
> attribute value. 

XML syntax code must also be validated, compiled and executed. An
implementation could do both at the time that the stylesheet is loaded
rather than at the time it is needed. There are still good reasons to want
non-ECMAScript access to attributes, but it is not the case that things in
XML notation are necessarily fast and things in ECMAScript notation are
necessarily slow.

 Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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