Re: Data extraction

David,
Thanks for the reply. My apologies, i didn't give example of my XML. The
XML contains single occurance of ElementToExtract/ node. In which case I
thought that instead of going through the whole tree, jumping to the
element using descendant::*:ElementToExtract is firstly small in code and
secondly eleminating the useless node traversal ?

Wanted to validate my thought ..


On Mon, Dec 17, 2018, 2:23 PM David Carlisle d.p.carlisle@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 17:54, Mailing Lists Mail daktapaal@xxxxxxxxx
> <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all
> > I have a requirement where I need to write an xslt to extract a
> particular node from source tree.
> >
> >
> > Someone wrote an xslt that looked like this.. pseudo code
> >
> > Template Match node()|@*
> >   Apply-template select node()|@*
> >
> > Template match *:ElementToExtract
> >     Copy of select .
> >
> > I thought the developer was making a lot of traversing using the above
> approach and he could have instead done
> >
> > Template match "/"
> >    Copy of select descendant::*:ElementToExtract
> >
> >
> > Would you agree ? I thought this was very obviously better and faster ...
> >
> > Forgive my pseudo code.
>
> whether or not it is faster depends on the processor you are using and
> how it optimises such searches but in general they are not equivalent
> if you can have
>
> <ElementToExtract>...<ElementToExtract>zzz</ElementToExtract>...</ElementToExtract>
>
> Then the first form will return
>
> <ElementToExtract>...<ElementToExtract>zzz</ElementToExtract>...</ElementToExtract>
> and the second
>
> <ElementToExtract>...<ElementToExtract>zzz</ElementToExtract>...</ElementToExtract><ElementToExtract>zzz</ElementToExtract
>
> David
>
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