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At 2009-11-22 13:03 -0600, a kusa wrote:
Thanks for your input. What little I know about using "//" is that the processor checks a whole document when a "//element" is used. If we are talking about a really big document (few mB) this would definitely slow down the transformation processing time. In general, yes ... for example, looking for a section title way down deep under figure captions is a waste of time. Note, however, that some processors can actually optimize "//" into keyed lookup tables that vastly improve performance. Since they can analyze the stylesheet to see what kinds of nodes are being looked for, a lookup table can be built with knowledge of where the nodes are. But I tell my students not to rely on that and that any time they think they need "//" to think again because they probably don't unless they indeed want to check every leaf of every subtree of the entire document looking for something. I hope this helps. . . . . . . . . . . Ken
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