RE: [dom-xpath] XPath or? (was RE: Announcing www-dom-xpath@w3.org)

• From: Scott Boag/CAM/Lotus <Scott_Boag@lotus.com>
• Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 16:43:38 -0400
• To: www-dom-xpath@w3.org
• Message-ID: <OFAA1865B2.55467354-ON852568D4.00714F07@lotus.com>

"Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@virgin.net> wrote:
> I noted Scotts reply its good
> if I need to run the query 2000 times. My question is under what circs
> would anyone need to do that?

I've seen many cases of this.  Certainly this occurs in an XSLT engine
(some XSLT engines may want to use the facilities provided in the DOM
implementation).  If someone is writing their own custom transforms using
Java or JavaScript and XPath, it could easily occur.  In a client
environment where an application is processing many tiny DOMs I guess it
could occur.

-scott

Received on Wednesday, 3 May 2000 17:04:08 UTC