Re: BAST METHOD

> //DOCUMENT/HEAD/TITLE or
> //TITLE

rule number 1 any ise of // is likely to be slow.


//DOCUMENT/HEAD/TITLE 
will search the entire document looking for DOCUMENT elements

//TITLE
will search the entire document looking for TITLE elements


(/DOCUMENT/HEAD/TITLE)[1]

will tell the system to only find one TITLE element in that place.
the (..)[1]  makes it less readable and the chance that it makes any
measurable difference in the time taken is rather small, but changing //
to / can make a huge difference.

David

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