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Hi Dimitre, > In this case xsl:key will know in advance about all possible > operators and could build the indexes in an optimal way in order to > guarantee most efficient key() performance. > > Allowing the value of the third argument to be any (user-supplied) > function seems elegant, but this is nothing more (in terms of > execution speed) than a convenient shorthand. Yes, you're absolutely right; it would also be difficult to gain much efficiency-wise from allowing things like contains() to be used as a third argument. On the other hand, convenient shorthands are... convenient :) Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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