> The surprize ( even I was  predicting that ) was that if 
> writing 'the same' in 'one stylesheet  with no key()' it will be 
> 20-50  times as slow and again less readable than pipe.

Not 20-50.  2-5 times as slow.
 
Rgds.Paul.



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