Re: XPath perfomance in attributes or nodes?

I'm afraid I'm not going to answer your question but ask for other
possibility:

>Is it faster using XPath
>	projects/project[uid='{6A97F258-93A7-4C5E-B712-052130A5208C}']
>or
>	projects/project[@uid='{6A97F258-93A7-4C5E-B712-052130A5208C}']
>or even (but this is not always possible)
>	projects/project[name='The project']

or even (when is this possible?)
     projects/project/uid='{6A97F258-93A7-4C5E-B712-052130A5208C}'


Thanks in advance.


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On 6/3/02 at 11:38 Arjé Cahn wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>Does anyone have some solid performance figures on using XPath on
>attributes or nodes?
>
>For example, I have the following XML snippet:
>
>	<projects>
>		<project uid="{6A97F258-93A7-4C5E-B712-052130A5208C}">
>			<uid>{6A97F258-93A7-4C5E-B712-052130A5208C}</uid>
>			<name>The project</name>
>			<description>This is the project</description>
>			<startdate>01-01-2002</startdate>
>		</project>
>		<project uid="{6A97F258-93A7-4C5E-B712-052130A5208D}">
>			<uid>{6A97F258-93A7-4C5E-B712-052130A5208D}</uid>
>			<name>Another project</name>
>			<description>This is another project</description>
>			<startdate>02-02-2002</startdate>
>		</project>
>	</projects>
>
>And I want to select a <project>.
>Is it faster using XPath
>	projects/project[uid='{6A97F258-93A7-4C5E-B712-052130A5208C}']
>or
>	projects/project[@uid='{6A97F258-93A7-4C5E-B712-052130A5208C}']
>or even (but this is not always possible)
>	projects/project[name='The project']
>???
>
>I will have about 10000+ items.
>
>Regards,
>
>Arjé Cahn
>
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