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RE: [xsl] which is more effiecient and fast doc() or collection()

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Efficiency and speed depend entirely on the processor you are using: as
always, the rule is to try some experiments that are representative of your
particular situation.

I would have thought collection() was more convenient here, but doc() more
portable.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mario Madunic [mailto:hajduk@xxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 26 June 2008 14:52
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] which is more effiecient and fast doc() or collection()
> 
> Working on converting an XSD to SVG (will hopefully look like 
> TURBOXML's lovely view). I'm mainly using doc() with a regex 
> to parse the various directories of XSD files. Since the XSD 
> is built modularly and each element in its own file (I 
> personally do not like reading XSDs or XSLTs (for that 
> matter) in one large file and have to scroll up and down to 
> make sense of it all, but that is another
> discussion) meaning there are a lot of files. So before I 
> test it out and spend time on switching from doc() to 
> collection() I was hoping for some feedback. 
> 
> Which is the better method? Which is faster or more efficient?
> 
> Marijan (Mario) Madunic

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