> This suggests surely that there must either be something wrong with
> the way I am using the keys (so they are being ineffectual), or MSXML
> has a very poor implementation of keys. Any other suggestions???

>From the very beginning when they issued their latest beta release MSXML4 (July), MS
has documented what they called a "nasty bug" for the key() implementation. 

I don't understand how one would seek ***performance*** from a beta version?

Dimitre Novatchev.

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