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Hi Folks, Is the following true or false? XML developers who fail to grasp the distinction between reading and evaluating an XML instance document may have a good model of the structure of XML, but they usually have a terrible model of the efficiency of processing XML. One XML developer used only one-letter element names, because he felt that it would be faster for the computer to look up one-letter elements than a multi-letter name. While it may be true that shorter names can save a microsecond at read time, this makes no difference at all at evaluation time. Every element, regardless of its name, is just a memory location, and the time to access the location does not depend on the name of the element. /Roger
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