> not necessary and hashes are difficult in C? I haven't done 
> keys in xslt but I can see that they are usefull and in C 

I agree 100%.  Some languages provide built-in hashing.
However, it is not  hard to write your own, and usually
is the way to get best performance for a particular problem.

Cheers,
-J


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