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On 4/12/06, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 07:59 AM 4/12/2006, Andrew wrote: > >If I were using 2.0 I would use a tunnelled parameter that was created > >at the <para> matching template and then read in the <a> matching > >template, but the OP didnt day whether they could use 2.0 or not.... > > What would the advantage of this be over the old-fashioned way? > > Would we save a few microseconds? > > Isn't the direct approach easier to maintain? I always try and avoid ancestor and descendant - whenever I use them my conscience tells me I'm being lazy, and makes me use a different approach... In this example there are many <a>'s to one <docBase>, so traversing ancestor each time to retrieve the same value seems like a waste - if there are 3 <a>'s, that means 3 trips up the same ancestor axis to get the same value (I guess it probably gets optimized, but why rely on that?) much better to store the value in a tunnelled parameter.
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