RE: [xsl] searching a group of xml documents

Subject: RE: [xsl] searching a group of xml documents
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:19:20 +0100
> I know how to do it is with xslt...but for 100 xml documents 
> it would probably be very slow.

No, it can be surprisingly fast. I've used XSLT (or XQuery - makes no
difference) to search collections of 10,000 or so schemas in the W3C test
suites without having to go and make a cup of coffee. Saxon's collection()
function is ideal for this kind of task.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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