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RE: [xsl] Push Processing

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At 2009-03-02 11:30 -0500, Scott, Christopher wrote:

Also, is there any real advantage to specifying as="element()" other
then readability/documentation?

Opportunities for optimization by the processor.

In my XSLStyle XSLT documentation methodology I mandate this on all global variables and parameters. It is also just as helpful on local variables, but I'm less rigorous about that.

You've recently discussed the
advantages of doing this for non-element data types (e.g. numeric
functions).  Are there similar advantages for element()?

For all variables the more the processor knows about how the variable will be used, the better.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . Ken

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