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Re: [xsl] Cheaper to prepend or append an item to a sequence?

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Hmm, maybe I misunderstand or we're mixing apples and pears. The way I see it, you say "select all @id from whole doc which is not belong to meta node" and that means check for each @id whether it belongs to a meta-node. You cannot do that check only once. I don't see a difference between your and my analysis.


On 22-2-2011 20:51, wQ^ESLAW sEDOW wrote:

nope... select all @id from whole doc which is not belong to meta node
- result ia same for every node

2011/2/22 Abel Braaksma<abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>:

wQ^ESLAW,

Actually, it _is_ dependent on the current node. //@id gets all @id nodes in
the document. The next "[..]" means "filter these nodes by the following
expression". That expression is a node-test: "not(ancestor::meta)", which is
applied to the _current_ node (the current @id-node).

That doesn't mean that a processor cannot optimize that, but in this case
that might proof futile: no single element can contain multiple attributes
with the same name. Hence the processor will have to test the predicate for
each and every found id-attribute.

In short: no, it cannot be calculated only once.

Kind regards,
Abel Braaksm

On 22-2-2011 20:26, wQ^ESLAW sEDOW wrote:

@id = //@id except (@id, //meta//@id) - yep... good idea

but i think that even //@id[not(ancestor::meta)] should be calculated
only once since it not depend from current node - is not it? is
optimizer capable to recognize context dependant from context
independant XPath fragments inside predicate and calculate independant
fragments only once instead calculating it every time for each node?

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