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

> From: www-dom-xpath-request@w3.org
> [mailto:www-dom-xpath-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Scott Boag/CAM/Lotus
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 10:44 PM
> To: www-dom-xpath@w3.org
> Subject: RE: [dom-xpath] XPath or? (was RE: Announcing
> www-dom-xpath@w3.org)
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> "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?
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> 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.

Maybe this actually is the killer use case for XPath on DOM? That an XSLT
engine should be able to use it rather than to have to implement it's own
XPath implementation?